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The Commonwealth of Health -Massachusetts’s Great Medical Innovations – 15 Resources for High School Students
/0 Comments/in Academic Standards, Blog: Education, COVID Education, COVID education resources, Featured, Jamie Gass /by Jamie GassIn Pioneer’s ongoing series of blogs here, on curricular resources for parents, families, and teachers during COVID-19, this one focuses on: Introducing high school students to great medical innovations from Massachusetts.
NCTQ’s Kate Walsh on the Crisis in K-12 Teacher Prep, Quality, & Evaluation
/0 Comments/in Academic Standards, COVID Education, COVID Podcasts, Featured, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. They discuss the qualifications of those who enter the teaching profession, explore teacher preparation, and key differences between teacher preparation, accreditation, and job prospects in the U.S. and other countries. They also speculate about what a Biden presidency might mean for K-12 education policymaking, and discuss how to diversify the teaching pipeline.
Study: Growth of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Could Have Massive Human, Financial Costs
/in Featured, Healthcare, Press Releases: Health Care, Press Releases: Life Sciences /by Editorial StaffThe world was blindsided by COVID-19, but a new Pioneer Institute study finds that even as we continue to wrestle with the pandemic, another threat looms that scientists have long known about but the nation has thus far failed to address: the growth of antibiotic-resistant infections.
“Market dysfunction and perverse Medicare reimbursement rates have led to a growth in infections that resist antibiotics,” said Gunnar Esiason, author of “Antimicrobial Resistance: Learning from the current global health crisis to prevent another one.” If we don’t solve this problem, the human and economic costs are likely to be astronomical.”
Clearing Boston’s Throat: What the I-90 Allston Project Portends for Metro West Commuters
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog: Transportation, Featured, Podcast Hubwonk, Transparency /by Editorial StaffJoin hosts Joe Selvaggi and Pioneer Institute’s Mary Connaughton, and guest, former Mass. Secretary of Transportation Jim Aloisi, as they discuss the I90 Allston Multimodal Project, its long-term benefits, and their concerns for the metro west commuters and communities during the project’s decade-long construction.
In light of COVID-19, Massachusetts should rethink its convention center bureaucracy
/0 Comments/in Blog, Featured, Transparency /by Andrew MikulaRight before commercial real estate values in the U.S. started plummeting earlier this year, Massachusetts officials seemed to finally come to a consensus over the proposed sale of the Hynes Convention Center in the Back Bay. Privatization of the Back Bay property was slated to fund a 200,000-square foot expansion of another state-owned convention center, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center or “BCEC.” Now, Boston’s weak commercial real estate market renders this plan entirely unappealing, largely because the Hynes probably couldn’t fetch its full Fiscal Year 2020 value of $176 million. Moreover, during a deadly pandemic, it hardly makes sense to pour more public funds into indoor spaces that rely on large crowds to make money, especially when their […]