MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017.  As part of…

Harry Truman he ain't

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I know there are a lot of issues on the table right now, particularly…

One Day

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That's all it took. We wait years for pension reform. Years…

The Return of Governor Deval Patrick

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The House of Representatives is, as we go to press, engaged in…

Interesting Choices

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I opened up my Globe this AM to be greeted by this Metro section…

Treasurer Cahill's Spring Cleaning

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Allegations were made regarding the connections between the Treasurer…

Almost a million dollars an hour

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One of my pet issues has been moving payroll and other short-lived…

Why MTEL, Not PRAXIS, Will Maintain Teacher Quality in Massachusetts:

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Author(s): CSR — Publication date: 2009-04-23 Category: Education…

Pick Your Favorite Earmark

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The amendments to the House Ways & Means Budget are in!! Take…

National health plans competing with the private sector

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John Graham of the Pacific Research Institute makes a great point…

Reform for Thee, Not for Me

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The House passed a limited version (more to come, they promise)…

Potemkin Reform

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It is becoming increasingly difficult to buy into the notion…

How Not to Advocate for Transit

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Yesterday's Globe covered the expansion of the Green Line into…

Hmmm, Astrid Glynn returns

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New York State Transportation Commissioner Astrid Glynn is resigning…

Try to make your point more skillfully. . . err, I mean more subtly

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As I have been in the past critical of Michael Graham's column,…

The Revolving Door Also Swings Close to Home

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There's been some hand-wringing recently over the increasingly…

Truth Telling

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An eye-opening quote from the CBO's analysis of the proposed…

Is quasi-governmental power a 21st century skill

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Robert Pondiscio of Core Knowledge passed on this nugget: Common…

Metrics Matter

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Noah Bierman of the Globe had an interesting piece in Sunday's…

Going After the Cabbies

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City Councillor John Tobin has proposed a sliding taxi fare scale…

The Know-Nothing Amendments: Barriers to School Choice in Massachusetts

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Barriers to School Choice in Massachusetts Author(s): Cornelius…

Is he just spinning or out of the loop?

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The other day my esteemed colleague Steve Poftak and I, in separate…

Enough about Marian Walsh, let's talk about Quasi-Public Conduits

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The Patrick Administration's publicly stated (still!) strategy…

Why MTEL, Not PRAXIS, Will Maintain Teacher Quality

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The tests Massachusetts uses for licensing teachers, the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL), have been developed for the state by the Evaluation Systems group of Pearson (ESP) under continuously renewed contracts with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Prospective teachers in Massachusetts must take a reading and writing skills test as well as a test of their subject-area knowledge.

The Know-Nothing Amendments: Barriers to School Choice in Massachusetts

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This paper will consider a sad phenomenon in American history—19th-century nativism and in particular, anti-Catholic prejudice—and its lingering and deleterious effects on American primary and secondary education.