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Disappointing piece from Dave Driscoll in the Globe
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Former MA education commissioner David Driscoll opined today…
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Kansas: Keep your Race to yourself
Kansas is not applying for Race to the Top funds, according to…
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MBTA: Walking the Tightrope
On the face of it the MBTA and its new General Manager Richard…
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Who's Milquetoast? The envelope please…
So some of you did not get the reference to Caspar Milquetoast,…
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Watering down Milquetoast
Jamie Vaznis in today's Globe presents a bombshell:
The state’s…
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A missed opportunity to fix small business insurance
Small business insurance has been a mess in this state for a…
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How Washington is undermining the Bay State's high education standards
We did not miss out on the Race to the Top primarily because…
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Why MA finished 13th of 16 on the Race to the Top
Yesterday's piece in the Globe by Jamie Vaznis strikes me as…
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MA vs. US: Round 1: Individual Mandate
A mandate made sense in MA for a few reasons. First, it was…
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A Low Cost Counterweight to Partners?
I'm fascinated by the thinking behind the Caritas-Cerberus tie-up…
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How to Kill Off Manufacturing in Massachusetts
Manufacturing in Massachusetts is dead, right? Rusted out and…
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Race to the Top out of reach
Holy s^&*! Jamie Vaznis of the Boston Globe is reporting that…
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Auto insurance does not equal health insurance
What's wrong with a government mandate for health insurance?…
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Are Large-Scale School Turnarounds A Myth?
Tough editorial from the WSJ today, calling the "doubling down"…
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The Devil is in the Details
Anyone involved in the Massachusetts reform is probably being…
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Goldhill's Atlantic Article on Healthcare
Thanks to all those who participated in last night’s Hewitt…
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MA tops nation in reading for 3rd time in a row
From the Department of Education's press release: "Massachusetts…
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So whaddaya think about Sunday's vote?
Many thoughts but here are three key ones:
1) What a wasted…
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Little settlement with words
Words have history, and that is really why they have power. All…
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NPT: Rumblings in the non-profit underground?
The Non-Profit Times sends almost daily emails with surveys and…
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EdWeek: Adopt standards or forget RttT funds
Yesterday, the Globe published an editorial that made the reasonable…
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Public Higher Ed Committee Member Rips MA K-12 Standards
Lane Glenn, vice president of academic affairs at Northern Essex…