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…

Day 12: Choice Now

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Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…

Public Safety Funds: Where Are They Going?

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Public Safety Funds: Where Are They Going? Contact Samantha…

Best Wishes To Curt

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Today's news reports that Curt Schilling has accepted the deal…

The Limits of Data: Weighted Edition

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One tip for aspiring data hounds -- always ask for weighted data. What…

Day 11: Put virtue in virtual school regulations

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For Aristotle, virtues required wisdom, the ability to find balance…

The Limits of Data

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Here at Pioneer, we are all for data-driven decision-making,…

Day 10: Decentralize decisions in failing urban districts

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Sometimes failure is not just in a handful of schools, but in…

Day 9 – Tested innovation for failing urban schools

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Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…

Day 8: Give Urban Kids Access to a Rich Liberal Arts Curriculum

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Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…

Day 7: Strengthen STEM standards, instruction and assessments

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While our student gains in math and science over the past decade…

Day 6: Attract and Retain High-Quality Math and Science Teachers

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Massachusetts’ students have made impressive gains in math…

National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade

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National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade Academic Standards…

Day 5: Prepare effective teachers

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It may sound like a platitude, but that doesn’t make it any…

Day 4: Recreate a strong accountability system

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When you spend $9 billion a year on schools, accountability must…

On national standards, you get what you pay for

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This week, State House News broke a story on the “cozy relationship”…

Dubious Connection of the Day

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A search of the apartment belonging to the Russian spies turned…

Plagarized Post: Scrap the Muni Relief Bill

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Sigh. This space takes enough potshots at the Globe, so they…

Day 3: Modernize state agencies to encourage local school reform

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In a recent blog, I noted how bloated the Department of Elementary…

Thought Experiment

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Substitute "Pioneer Institute" for "Health Care For All" in the…

Day 2: Strengthen the objective MCAS test

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When Governor William Weld signed the Education Reform Act, no…

Day 1: Strengthen the richest liberal arts standards in the nation

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The future belongs to the nation that best educates its citizens. That’s…

Countdown to World Class Schools

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The next two years are going to see the roughest state and local…

The GOV and Senate President Are Right

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...on racino licensing. Both are pushing back on racino proposals…

Patrick-Murray Campaign Upgrades to Latest Technology

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A new piece of social networking hachi-machi to organize field…

Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Be Running for Tobin's Council Seat

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10 - don't actually live in district 9 - weekend attire of Celtics/Red…

Review of Common Core Math Standards: Testimony to the California Academic Content Standards Commission

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Testimony to the California Academic Content Standards Commission provided in July 2010.

GOV's Race Machismo

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This morning's newspaper reports that the LG was hospitalized…

Happy 4th – Gordon Wood on the Founding

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Below is a video of an event, History and Civic Education, that…

Happy 234th Anniversary: On Love of Country

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In just two days, we will celebrate the 234th anniversary of…

National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade

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The case for national standards rests in part on the need to remedy the inconsistent purposes and inferior quality of many state standards and tests in order to equalize academic expectations for all students. The argument also addresses the urgent need to increase academic achievement for all students.