Sheetal Bahirat Turns a Profit on Food Waste
…earlier, but what was the common thread between all these businesses and perhaps future businesses? Sheetal Bahirat: I think it was just like there was there was an opportunity that…
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Jeff Wetzler, Co-founder of Transcend, on Innovation in School Design
/by Editorial Staff…the impact of learning experiences. Wetzler is currently Board Chair for New Classrooms Innovation Partners and has also served on the boards of Uncommon Schools NYC, and the National Academy…
Innovation Reduction Act: Price Controls’ Prescription for New Therapies
/by Editorial Staff…common property. And someone can make a generic of my drug, but that’s a, a period of time. Say more. Why are drug companies granted this monopoly? What, what, what…
Professor Jay Parini on Thirteen Books That Changed America
/by Editorial Staff…history, common history. But also recognize that we are an always evolving nation that is building equality and building inclusion all the time. So, that’s why I thought these kinds…
Dr. Ramachandra Guha on Gandhi’s Enduring Legacy
/by Editorial Staff…own Gandhi, but Gandhi himself never actually at this stage tries to build a common front to the Africans, as early on in his career, he, in his life in…
Josh Smith on Immigrants’ Role in Economic Recovery
/by Editorial Staff…and what they find in their research, Leah and Ron is that that’s a common story immigrants. When they, when they come to the us, they start off with very…
UK’s Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime Mystery
/by Editorial Staff…Boston School Committee approved a new admissions policy for the exam schools. Under the new plan, applicants are evaluated in two ways. First, a combined score based on academic success….
Untangling Unsheltered Encampments: Home Is Where the Help Lies
/by Editorial Staff…it and break it into its elemental forms. Joe Selvaggi: Um, you know, there’s no sort of common homeless scenario. There are people are, are, um, homeless for many reasons,…
UCLA’s Prof. James Stigler on Teaching & Learning Math
/by Editorial Staff…common pursuit he writes that, you know, ask any dad rock weekend band or church ensemble how it, how it experiences music, And the performers are likely to tell you…
Except in Florida, There’s Really No (High School) Debate
/by Jude Iredell…of viewing competing opinions with good faith while staying true to a to a common set of facts and evidence. For participants and spectators alike, these standards helped build civic…
T.J. Stiles on Cornelius Vanderbilt & American Business
/by Editorial Staff…end of his life, controls a vast network of railroads, which run from Chicago to New York. [00:28:59] TJ Stiles: this is really the core of the American industrial and…
Mortgage’s New Normal: Guide to Better Borrowing Amidst Higher Rates
/by Editorial Staff…familiar with what is a term called a FICO score, for example, that’s probably the most common term. That score can impact the rate you get. Those scores range typically…
Patrick Anquetil on America’s Freedom to Innovate
/by Editorial Staff…were those experiences like very disparate sort of places, right? Patrick Anquetil: Yeah. You know, I think what’s interesting. They all had the same thing in common that you had…
UVA’s Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Prof. Alan Taylor on Thomas Jefferson & Education
/by Editorial Staff…And we went through this whole era right in the eighties where kids couldn’t even pass common basic competency tests. And so what did we do instead of teaching them…
COVID’s Unintended Victims: Traditional Diseases Overlooked at the Public’s Peril
/by Editorial Staff…that may be something that could be done in a telehealth visit, but right now that’s not that common. So that’s the number one thing I think that was missing…
Learning from Massachusetts’ health-care experiment
/by Editorial Staff…overshadowed the real lessons of Massachusetts’ experiment. The core question then-Gov. Romney was trying to answer was this: Should Massachusetts continue to pay hospitals more than $1 billion a year…
2012 Lovett C. Peters Lecturer, Dr. Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes
/by Editorial StaffOn November 13th, 2012, Pioneer’s core supporters gathered for our 15th annual Lovett C. Peters Lecture in Public Policy, an event that embodies the spirit of Pioneer Institute’s founder by…
The Perfect Storm in Gloucester
/by Jim Stergios…darkest and slimiest of Massachusetts bureaucratic and political clouds. What is striking to an outsider observer is that Reville thought that charters can thrive if politicized. The core strength of…
Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out of My Hat
/by Jim Stergios…it worked? Brian Mooney (here and here) sure thinks so, and he is partially right. But on the core issue of cost containment, it has not worked because we did…
Phoenix Charter Academy’s Mission Impossible?
/by Jim Stergios…on videotape from Beth on core challenges and how PCA has met them, specifically: How the school’s culture is established and maintained Teacher retention in a school that has set…
(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About the MBTA
/by Steve Poftak[WARNING: Hard-core transportation nerdiness ahead. Consider yourself warned.] As a user of the MBTA and a fan of transit (no, really), there’s no better place to learn about the minutiae…
Voc-tech schools lowering the dropout rate
/by Jim Stergios…from its three core provisions—high standards, accountability, and choice. You can access videos other videos on vocational-technical schools here, on MCAS and academic gains, Vocational-technical schools as models of choice,…
We may need someone to monitor Monitor
/by Jim Stergios…democracy, and his “core ideas on individual freedom.’’ The Mother Jones piece by David Corn and Siddhartha Mahanta is even more blistering. In February 2007 Harvard professor Joseph Nye Jr.,…
Too many do-gooders?
/by Jim Stergios…is tough to do because they often come with built-in constituencies. But the fact is that any superintendent that has more than a handful of core goals has been twisted…
Ho-hum to the Guv on education
/by Jim Stergios…the expense of the core business of teachers and schools: Bringing high-quality academic experiences to kids. He sacrificed our standards for 33 cents a day per student in Race to…
James Carroll Time-Saver: America is Rotten
/by Steve PoftakThe Globe’s James Carroll regularly writes op-ed columns* that utilize available newspegs to hammer home one of his key themes: the utter rottenness at the core of “America” and its…
The Founders and Slavery: Q&A Part 1
/by Editorial Staff…Constitution. The panel discussion following the keynote addresses included: Moderator: Robert Pondiscio, Director of Communications, Core Knowledge Foundation Anders Lewis, Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School Will Fitzhugh, The…
The fate of 27,000 kids
/by Jim Stergios…right now. Lots of debate on funding (the core issue) and lots of fur flying. We are sending out a new VoterVoice piece to those who have already sent in…
Just. Not. Smart.
/by Jim Stergios…Health and Human Services, Soldiers’ Home (Massachusetts and Holyoke), Elder Affairs, Disabled Persons Protection, Youth Services, Disability, and Developmental Disabilities as core SNP programs. You can access a spreadsheet for…
A bit of soul searching
/by Jim Stergios…River’s and New Bedford’s mayors are cutting deep into core services because of local aid cuts. Whatever happened to shared sacrifice? And what is this curiously limited talking point that…