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…

Let me rise

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Listen to Juan Williams on the DC Scholarship program. Folks,…

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…

Big dates with the feds

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Here they are! - March 4th United States Secretary of Education…

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…

On Finn and Linn

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

Arne Duncan goes DC

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There was/is the big push to centralize health care. Now centralize…

Randi blah-blah-blah?

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Central Falls (RI) School Superintendent Frances Gallo is moving…

Charters and disadvantaged students

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We've had some long discussions with legislators and the media…

Calling Glenn Koocher

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I am pretty sure you have seen the number of online tools Pioneer…

The missing link – student data and teacher performance

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Dan Willingham's good piece in the Boston Globe on what makes…

Secretary Reville does Mel Gibson

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At the January 26 Board of Education meeting that dealt primarily…

Close Hughes?

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Pioneer has always taken the view that the state should close…

It's not nice to call the President a liar

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The Lowell Sun reported a week or so back that Teachers Union…

Too high a price to pay?

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The Chicago Tribune editorial page ran an incredible piece just…

Whose lack of urgency?

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Laura Crimaldi of the Boston Herald has done a good job reporting…

Go back to the Governor's bill

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The Senate is going to be debating a bill that on the face of…

More on the US DOE Inspector General's report

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I have been at a meeting in North Carolina with budget watchdog…

Good news on charter performance

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From Marc Kenen of the Mass Charter School Association comes…

How is this for pushing hard, part 2

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Whitney Tilson passes on additional news from RI. Given that…

How is this for pushing hard to obtain Race to the Top Funds?

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In a recent post, I pointed to the new Commissioner of Education…

Will the Gloucester mess impact the charter cap lift?

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Whether House Education Committee Chair Marty Walz was deflecting…

Breaking News – RI Ed Commissioner on seniority

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From the Providence Journal: RI education commissioner Deborah…

Contrition about Attrition

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The Mass Teachers Association's report Charter School Success…

One more time on education funding

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Given my previous post about the report from the US DOE’s Inspector…

US DOE's Inspector General questions MA funding of education

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The Alliance for Excellent Education has released a report, Straight…

Interesting numbers on MA K-12 teachers

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A very interesting story comes out of the Census data compiled…

K-12 enrollments down, number of teachers up

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Our Education Intelligence Agency operative once again comes…

Cleaning up my emails

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No, not those emails, silly. No reference to new computers or…