Mend over matter

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For those of you who are inclined to think that Massachusetts…

Phoenix Charter Academy’s Mission Impossible?

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The month of May opened with the official granting of 16 charters.…

School dollars and health reform

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Calls for more funding for education are common. Policy organizations…

Not Like The Other

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In general, good manners are to be respected. But our dear friends…

Is Medicaid (MassHealth) Preventing the Poor from Breaking out of Addiction?

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Lawrence Harmon of The Boston Globe had a very interesting…

(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About the MBTA

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[WARNING: Hard-core transportation nerdiness ahead. Consider…

Tuesday Quick Hits

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- Holub out? I haven't followed it closely but the Globe suggests…

The Soft Cost of Doing Business In Massachusetts?

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If you talk with business leaders, you hear stories about the…

Your vote is sacred, unless we don’t like it

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The vote of the people is sacred. Except when it’s not. And…

We’re #5! No wait, we’re #43!

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During last year's gubernatorial campaign, CNBC ranked Massachusetts…

King of New York

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Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times If the weekend sweep…

4 lessons from vocational-technical schools

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Over the past couple of weeks, I've shared a number of videos…

Gov. Patrick’s Regulatory Regime for Payment Reform

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This was the testimony I submitted today to the Joint Committee…

An education in history

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On Monday, a Globe editorial noted that THE STATE’S new…

Voc-tech schools lowering the dropout rate

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This is the fifth and final leg of my series on the tremendous…

Pay-to-play is rampant in Boston

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Interesting juxtaposition in the news of the week. Sal DiMasi,…

Jobs for kids? Try cutting the minimum wage

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The Boston Globe remains an unapologetic public-relations arm…

Voc-tech success with special needs students

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Whenever I talk to education experts and people interested…

Flawed Foundation of the Pacheco Law

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Those seeking more competition in government have opposed the…

Cracks in the national standards consensus

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Back in the fall, I mentioned that I thought that after the…

Vocational-technical schools working with business

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The local business community has always been heavily involved…

Choosing to succeed in regional vocational-technical schools

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What sets Massachusetts's education reform efforts apart from…

Maine Moving on Health Care

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An interesting experiment is about to be unleashed in one of…

Another Department of Public Safety Issue

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This space has raised questions in the past about the staffing…

Massachusetts Medicaid “Savings” in Trouble?

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The New York Times reports In a new effort to increase access…

Dear Abigail on History

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In what is a textbook example of bad policy on the teaching…

Fight of the Century

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Education does not only take place in our schools, though we…

Whither METCO?

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If METCO closes the achievement gap, and if closing the achievement gap is a top priority, why are we cutting METCO funding?

Transparency, To a Point

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Just 99 days after filing the first in a series of requests,…

No Free Lunch

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What do the recent kerfuffle involving Boloco and Boston’s…