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…

Our Stand on Standards

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Seems our report and the release of the common core standards…

And now VA takes a pass on national standards

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Bob Stuart of the News Virginian reports that now Virginia won’t…

Wow, That's A Promotion

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MIT's Professor Peter Diamond, a well-regarded authority on employee…

Hole punched in national standards effort

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As Sam Dillon of the New York Times noted our opposition to the…

Closing time for some libraries

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There is a reasonable accommodation that has to be made as regards…

How to cut health insurance costs by 18%

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Got your attention? The State has put a wealth of disclosure…

A big question on Lawrence

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The Senate is hard at work on its version of a rescue package…

Let me rise

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Listen to Juan Williams on the DC Scholarship program. Folks,…

Senator Brian Joyce is right

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The Herald has a piece today on Senator Joyce getting flak from…

Headquarters and Jobs

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If you had a chance to read Steve Syre in the Globe this morning,…

Heading Down: The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters

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The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters Author(s): John Friar…

Angelo Scaccia Has No Idea What Boston Gets in Local Aid

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In the debate over the Lawrence loan bill, Hyde Park Rep. Angelo…

Shocking: AFL-CIO comes out aganist Central Falls superintendent

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Yeah, I know. That's. Not. News. The only thing worth pointing…

WSJ: MA not at top of RttT applicant pool

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Neil King of The Wall Street Journal puts Massachusetts out of…

Big dates with the feds

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Here they are! - March 4th United States Secretary of Education…

Fair to Middling: A National Standards Progress Report

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The purpose of this April 2010 progress report is to indicate how Common Core's March drafts have addressed the deficiencies and limitations in its September and January drafts, and to spell out major areas needing further work. The analysis we present in this progress report shows that, although progress has been made, considerably more work is needed, particularly at the secondary level, to enable Common Core's mathematics and English language arts (ELA) standards to be internationally benchmarked and to serve as the basis for valid and reliable high school exit level assessments.

An Interim Report Card on Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Part 3

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This report is the third in a series of four. The focus of this report is on administrative efficiency.

Beyond Demographic Destiny

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This report analyzes achievement gaps for African-American and Hispanic minority students in selected Massachusetts school districts. It examines the gaps in English Language Arts and Mathematics achievement on the state assessment, MCAS, between each minority group and White students.

Heading Down: The Loss of Massachusetts Headquarters

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This brief seeks to analyze the impact of changes in the composition of workplaces in Massachusetts to determine the specific impacts the changes in the raw number and percentage share of headquarters have had on job creation and loss.

The Governor No One Voted For

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I've written about New York's insane political world in the past,…