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Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: Educational Achievement
/0 Comments/in Economic Opportunity, Press Releases, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, Press Releases: Education, Related Education Blogs /by Editorial StaffA Look at Educational Achievement Author(s): Dr. Robert D. Gaudet — Publication date: 2010-04-05 Category: Economic Opportunity Abstract: This analysis evaluates the educational performance of the 14 school systems that comprise the Pioneer Institute’s Middle Cities Initiative. These communities, which are outside of the Boston metropolitan area, struggle to attract businesses, maintain a viable tax base, control crime, and educate their children to the level needed to succeed in today’s world. Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: Educational Achievement
Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: A Look at Educational Achievement
/0 Comments/in Economic Opportunity, Press Releases, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity, Press Releases: Education, Related Education Blogs /by Editorial StaffA Look at Educational Achievement Author(s): Dr. Robert D. Gaudet — Publication date: 2010-04-05 Category: Economic Opportunity Abstract: This analysis evaluates the educational performance of the 14 school systems that comprise the Pioneer Institute’s Middle Cities Initiative. These communities, which are outside of the Boston metropolitan area, struggle to attract businesses, maintain a viable tax base, control crime, and educate their children to the level needed to succeed in today’s world. Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: Educational Achievement
How Washington is undermining the Bay State's high education standards
/2 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Common Core, Blog: Education, Jim Stergios, Related Education Blogs /byWe did not miss out on the Race to the Top primarily because of the fact that we have not yet adopted the Common Core standards that are still in draft form. But that is the easy give for the Patrick administration. First, the Patrick folks don’t want to do the hard work necessary to address the major failing in the application — the lack of any sense as to how they would evaluate teachers using student and other data. That would take imagination, the expenditure of political capital, and good blocking and tackling. They lack all of the above. Adopting the Common Core standards is an easy one for an administration that has been willing, as Charlie Chieppo and […]
Why MA finished 13th of 16 on the Race to the Top
/1 Comment/in Blog, Blog: Common Core, Blog: Education, Jim Stergios, Related Education Blogs /byYesterday’s piece in the Globe by Jamie Vaznis strikes me as making pretty clear that Legislative leaders are pretty soured on how the administration handled the RttT. We finished outside the winners’ circle (the winners were TN and DE), and we got trounced. The Senate President’s quote in particular shows that she expected the legislative actions taken in the fall and January to be matched by a strong proposal and equally difficult actions on the part of the administration. Now, it seems that the Patrick administration is blaming the state’s poor finish on the RttT on MA’s non-adoption (yet!) of the national standards. OK, let’s go to the facts, and they are all written in black and white in the […]
MA vs. US: Round 1: Individual Mandate
/0 Comments/in Blog, News /byA mandate made sense in MA for a few reasons. First, it was clear that our non-group market was failing due to adverse risk. It was sort-of like a high-risk pool but there were no options for healthy people. Because of changes that were made to the insurance laws in the mid-1990’s including guarantee issue, adjusted community rating (no underwriting allowed), and very limited product choice in the non-group market, the market was unaffordable. The only people purchasing in this market were people who really “needed” insurance. We saw large drops in enrollment each year (insurance jargon calls this a death spiral) leading up to the reforms in 2006. Second, we had VERY EXPENSIVE safety net, the Uncompensated Care Pool, […]