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MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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April 1, 2019

The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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February 20, 2017

The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017. As part of…

Closing Catholic Schools in Massachusetts Can Be Avoided

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May 30, 2017

The Archdiocese of Boston recently announced that after operating…

Op-ed: Why Mass. must not let up on testing students

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April 17, 2017

By Tom Birmingham APRIL 13, 2017 Massachusetts’ story…

Op-ed: The Great Statesman Cicero Presides Over The Ides Of March Forever

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March 15, 2017

“How I could wish that you had invited me to that most glorious…

Op-ed: State should expand METCO

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March 10, 2017

By Cheryl Brown Henderson and Jim Stergios The Boston Globe…

Op-ed: Slaving history must not be forgotten

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February 22, 2017

Read this op-ed in The New Bedford Standard Times, The Lowell…

Op-ed: Voc-tech schools are a Mass. success story

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February 8, 2017

Read this entire op-ed online at CommonWealth Magazine, the…

Op-ed: Will DeVos avoid the Beltway education trap?

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January 3, 2017

By Jim Stergios and Charles Chieppo Read this op-ed online…

Op-ed: Challenge and Opportunity for Catholic Education

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December 19, 2016

Given our desire to do as much as we can, especially to help poor urban kids participate fully in the American Dream, we need to provide them with access to school choice options: charter schools; vocational-technical schools; private and parochial schools; and METCO. Choice is what the privileged have for their children. Why shouldn't everyone have access to high quality academic options?

Op-ed: Teaching children assures that we will never forget

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November 29, 2016

Our schoolchildren need to learn Elie Wiesel’s wisdom, and the tragic events of the Holocaust, but they largely don’t. Wiesel's book Night is not an “exemplar text” in the nationalized K-12 standards, Common Core... Despite the post-World War II pleas to “never forget,” we are forgetting, and so are our children.

Op-ed: Gulliver’s Travels and Common Core

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November 21, 2016

This op-ed appeared in The Daily Caller and The New Bedford…

Op-ed: Vote ‘yes’ on Question 2

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October 21, 2016

This excerpt is from an op-ed published on Oct. 18, 2016 in The…

Op-ed: Mass. charters fight racial oppression

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October 21, 2016

By Sephira Shuttlesworth By 1959, my late husband, the Birmingham,…

Op-ed: Charter and district schools need not be adversaries

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September 21, 2016

By Thomas Birmingham This op-ed appeared in the New Bedford…

Op-ed: Teaching American History: A Straightforward Fix For The Bay State

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August 25, 2016

Read this full article on WGBH News. THOMAS BIRMINGHAM It’s…

Op-ed: Poetry teaches more than rhyme

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May 9, 2016

Originally posted beginning on Apr. 23, 2016 in The MetroWest…

Op-ed: State plays politics over charters

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March 30, 2016

it’s time for Massachusetts to stop playing political games with the charter authorization process.

Op-ed: State should revive US history requirement

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March 25, 2016

To teach students how to exercise the rights and responsibilities associated with active citizenship in a democracy, Massachusetts should revive the requirement that public school students pass a US history MCAS test to graduate from high school.

Guest Opinion: Time to end Know-Nothing legacy once and for all

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March 22, 2016

We should expel the Know-Nothings’ anti-Irish-Catholic amendment from the Massachusetts constitution, and remove bigoted Governor Gardner’s portrait from a position of prominence in our Statehouse.

Column: The last of ‘The Last of the Mohicans’

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February 29, 2016

Public school children are unlikely to read "The Last of the Mohicans," a masterpiece of American literature, thanks to Common Core's emphasis on "informational texts."