Video: TED talk, “The Child-driven Education”
From TED: Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist […]
2010 Statewide Test Scores Released
Yesterday, Governor Patrick released the 2010 school and district MCAS results and congratulated 187 newly-named “Commendation Schools” for their progress in closing […]
Reducing Student Poverty
The Center for American Progress released a report this week, Reducing Student Poverty in the Classroom, that acknowledges families living in poverty […]
New Report Shows High Rates of Overweight & Obesity in Mass. School Children
A new report released yesterday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has some alarming results: in eight school districts across the […]
Back-to-School News
Superintendent of Boston Public Schools Dr. Carol R. Johnson was featured in two interesting WBUR radio stories focused on the opening of […]
The Best & Worst Cities for School Reform in the US
A new study by Rick Hess, director of education studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and colleagues identifies nine cities in the […]
The Achievement Gap and Graduation Rates
Less than half of black males–47%–graduated from high school in the 2007-08 academic year, according to “Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott […]
Language Barrier a ‘Risk Factor’ for Hispanics
A new Associated Press-Univision nationwide poll of Latino families illuminated some surprising effects the language barrier has on education. According to the […]
Study Shows Progress on Closing Achievement Gap Stalled
The Educational Testing Service has released a new report showing that after a long period of progress in narrowing the educational attainment […]
Massachusetts Ranks #5 in ‘Kids Count’ Data
In the 2010 Kids Count Data Book, published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Massachusetts had the fifth-highest ranking for overall child […]