Don't give up pole position on standards!

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There is little to add to today's Globe editorial on academic…

A world without public sector unions?

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The Cato Institute just released a brief history of public-sector…

Let Them Eat Cake

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Please, please, my friends at the Greenway -- don't get too precious…

Border Tolls Are Coming

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I'm not sure how much of this is political theater or unrelated…

Kudos to Anne Wass

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Jamie Vaznis leads the Globe with a story that really needs a…

NY Times decades behind on standards

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The editorial on the national standards in today’s New York…

MetroWest Daily: Not these national standards

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The MetroWest Daily today also published a different op-ed piece…

Worcester T&G: Keep nat'l standards voluntary

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Today's Worcester Telegram & Gazette editorial underscores that…

Wurman & Stotsky skewer the proposed national standards

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In the past days, the announcements by Minnesota and Virginia…

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,…

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…

The Governor No One Voted For

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

Why soft skills are pernicious

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Way back in February 2009, we criticized a report issued by the…

Time for nailbiting

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Massachusetts has submitted its Race to the Top application and…

Murphy Beats Grossman!

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See, I told you so, someone needed to join Steve Grossman in…

Where's Martha?

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Its not easy being the Attorney General. You step on too many…

On Finn and Linn

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Checker Finn has a great blog at the Flypaper, which notes the…

Connecting with small businesses?

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State House News Service (subscription required) reports that…