Does the heroic reform model work?

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School Choice Models & Public School Reform from Mike Dean on…

Questioning the Convergence on National Standards

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The Southern writer Flannery O'Connor’s Everything that Rises…

Pete Peters

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Four things come quickly, indelibly, to mind about the life of…

Massachusetts Health Care Transparency: Bright Enough Spotlight?

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Massachusetts officials published online this week a database…

Rumblings of an earthquake in national education policy?

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With Rick Perry said to be a shoo-in for the head of the Republican…

Pioneer Senior Fellow on PBS's NewsHour

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Pioneer's Senior Fellow on Health Care, Amy Lischko, was interviewed…

Time to Remember

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Lovett C. Peters died Thursday, November 11, at the age of…

Health Care Costs Crushing States– Is the Solution to Drop out of Medicaid?

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The headline says it all. “States' Woes Spur Medicaid Drop-Out…

Too many do-gooders?

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I've had a chance to talk by phone with a number of superintendents…

Was Galileo Wrong?

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Diane Ravitch, the eminent historian of education, has noted…

Regulating Regulations

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During the gubernatorial campaign, Governor Patrick promised…

Raining Cats and Dogs: Massachusetts Local Budgets

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A Boston Globe headline today seems to imply cities and towns…

Patrick-Baker Compared to Brown-Coakley

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Scott Brown’s election in January 2010 was supposed to be the…

Giving Voters the Information They Need

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Here we sit on election eve.  Before us are decisions not only…

Health Care in the Mid-terms: What the Polls really tell us

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Trying to read the tea leaves of poll numbers on the general…

Do we misdiagnose younger students as ADHD?

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The PreventDisease.com website highlighted a couple of studies…

If the feds pay, the states will play

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Don't worry, Governor Patrick, Lieutenant Governor Murray and…

American as baseball, apple pie and primary care doctors?

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Harvard Medical School recently announced an anonymous gift of…

Globe's Puzzling Emphasis on Clean Energy

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Today's Globe endorses Deval Patrick for Governor, an expected…

Teaching the district a lesson

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We’ve seen this movie all too many times. There was the kerfluffle…

Is the job picture improving?

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I confess to being stumped by the contradictory information circulating…

Obama must do better on charters

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It looks like voters across the country, and in a number of…

Running the Numbers for Gloucester

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Today’s Globe has a piece on Gloucester’s issues with schools,…

ObamaCare blowback

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Great piece in the Boston Globe titled "ObamaCare blowback" by…

2 Things Every Prospective Boston Public School Parent Should Know

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For young parents in Boston, anxiety is beginning to build around…

How big of a deal was the 2010 ed reform law?

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Back in January 2010, there was a lot of hoopla around the…

Rhee Out in DC

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Got sad news in the middle of a screening of Waiting for Superman…

Pension Protest Style Points

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I am increasingly dismayed at the lack of style at American (and…

"Race to Solvency" for our cities?

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A press release from the Milken Institute notes: Vallejo, Calif;…

Mid-terms and the national education debate

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The national standards may have been approved in nearly 40…