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Study Documents The Design Challenges, Contracting Issues, And Delays Facing New MBTA Fare Collection System
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, Press Releases, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, Press Releases: MBTA, Press Releases: Transportation /by Editorial StaffThis new study unearths previously unseen communications between the MBTA and its contractors, showing that the MBTA’s efforts to modernize its fare collection system, including allowing payments with credit cards and bringing “tap and go” technology to Commuter Rail and ferry lines, was riddled with technological challenges and difficulties overseeing contractors as early as 2019, culminating in a 3-year delay to the project’s full implementation.
Columbia’s Prof. Nicholas Lemann on the Great Migration, the SAT, & Meritocracy
/in Academic Standards, Featured, Podcast, Related Education Blogs, US History /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” guest co-host Kerry McDonald talks with Nicholas Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia School of Journalism, and author of the books, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, and The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy.
Doctors With Borders: Curing Shortages With International Lifeline
/in Featured, Healthcare, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with Cicero Institute’s Jonathan Wolfson about the growing doctor shortage and the potential to alleviate the crisis by tapping the global supply of well-trained physicians eager to find safety and freedom in the US.
Open Letter to Mayor Michelle Wu on the Boston Public Schools
/in Academic Standards, Featured, News, Related Education Blogs /by Editorial Staff“Barely half of students (53 percent) graduate from BPS high schools, excluding the exam schools,” Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios underscores at the start of this Open Letter to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. That’s just one in a long litany of troubles within the Boston Public Schools, much of which is due to chaotic management and at times even willful misleading of the public. In this letter, Pioneer recommends fresh thinking, and, specifically, a highly focused and time-limited intervention, in partnership with the state department of education.
Jackie Krick Trains the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, JobMakers /by Editorial StaffThis week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Jackie Krick, immigrant from Colombia and founder, president and CEO of ECU Communications in Manassas, Virginia. They discuss the entrepreneurial spirit of the newest Americans – immigrants – and why they are twice as likely to start a business and create jobs.