A big test at Madison Park Vocational
…raising student achievement have come in the state’s 70 or so Commonwealth charter schools and its 27 regional career-vocational technical schools. Currently, there are 63 CVT schools in the Commonwealth…
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Haute Cuisine, anyone?
/by Liam Day…Core Knowledge Foundation have argued, persuasively I think, that the achievement gap is in fact a knowledge gap. As evidence he points to a study on the testing of reading…
Is global warming due to sulfur and not carbon
/by Jim Stergios…in Greenland’s ice core, Dr. Ward has studied the ice ages of recent geologic times, the warming and cooling trends of the Christian Era, unto the reduction of anthropo genic…
Results in on Teach for America
/by Jim Stergios…and science, than peers taught by far more experienced instructors. The TFA teachers’ effect on student achievement in core classroom subjects was nearly three times the effect of teachers with…
A first for the Board of Education
/by Jim Stergios…process that weeds out weak applications. This protects public dollars and has given the Commonwealth the best charters in the country. The proposed SABIS school was to serve 500 students…
Noble rhetoric, base motives
/by Jim StergiosWrap Gov. Patrick’s proposal to overhaul public education governance in whatever rhetoric you want, at its core, his plan is about taking control of the Board of Education. His plan,…
Overheated Extrapolation Department
/by Steve Poftak…the early leader in the Globe Op-Ed page’s yearly “Did-They-Really-Just-Say-That” competition. James Carroll is disqualified (see this week’s entry — Football reveals the rotting heart at the core of America)….
Borne back ceaselessly into the past
/by Steve Poftak…keeping a focus on core responsibilities. And so we come to the our state university system, which is universally acknowledged to have huge infrastructure issues, much of which is due…
Bored with education progress
/by Scott W. Graves…and #2) and scaling up the level of innovation–core aspects of the education reform movement in the nineties. Summary question for Paul: Are we moving forward or back to pre-1993?…
3 chairs to craft the education plan
/by Scott W. Graves…back to Bridgewater State College at the start of July. Also, there is the Governor’s announcement of the core leaders of the new new Task Force he is calling on…
Today, I want to be…
/by Scott W. Graves…business creation where we need it most (core urban neighborhoods) with a continued focus on access to capital. The focus has to be on bringing folks with money back downtown….
More budget minutiae
/by Steve Poftak…to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update, to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for core measures……
Out of the Mouths of Grad Students
/by Steve Poftak…lot of duplicative and competing campuses across the system all expanding across multiple dimensions, maximizing costs in the long run. What Massachusetts needs is to refocus on its core customers…
Food For Thought on Saving Schools Money in Massachusetts
/by Jim Stergios…local officials what they are doing. It could save serious money that can go to the core work of schools—teaching and learning. (But if you get your food services contracted…
Ugh…
/by Jim Stergios…$50 M over five years + uncertain outcome + cuts in other core services + lots of other bad stuff = good policy idea Man, that’s new math. Video here….
Making more than symbolic change in our schools
/by Jim Stergios…overstate the time-difference between the US and other countries as a core reason for our falling behind on international assessments. Consider Aaron Benavot’s 2005 UNESCO report, “A global study of…
Consider what worked with Romneycare
/by Editorial Staff…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 to…
The Founders and Slavery: Q&A Part 2
/by Editorial Staff…Constitution. The panel discussion following the keynote addresses included: Moderators: Robert Pondiscio, Director of Communications, Core Knowledge Foundation Anders Lewis, Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School Will Fitzhugh, The…
John Sivolella
/by Editorial Staff…Federal Government Agencies. John has also been on faculty at Columbia’s School of International and Political Affairs, where he taught The Politics of Policymaking in ‘Advanced’ Democracies, a core class…
Center for Better Government
/by Editorial StaffPioneerPublic seeks limited, accountable government by promoting competitive delivery of public services, elimination of unnecessary regulation, and a focus on core government functions. Current initiatives promote reform of public employee…
Orchard Gardens Against the Machine
/by Jim Stergios…man vs. self, another man, society or nature being the core types of conflict scaffolding for the story. Abraham’s piece leans hard on the man vs. society meme (here more…
Step it up, UMASS
/by Mary Connaughton…Female participation in college sports also grew markedly, increasing by 500%. Athletic excellence became a core value for women across the country. In 1972, the top female runner completed the…
The Gettysburg Address at 150: Reflections from Civil War Historian James McPherson
/by Editorial Staff…align=”center” color=”#999999″]”‘Four score and seven years‘ in the past, said Lincoln, ‘our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. Today, in 1863, our generation faces…
Lovett C. Peters Lecture: Honoring Harvard History Professor Niall Ferguson
/by Editorial Staff…thank you to our core group of supporters. Past speakers have included education innovator Sal Khan, X-Prize Foundation head Peter Diamandis, Cory Booker, Jeb Bush, Gladstone Institute researcher Deepak Srivastava,…
Is Detroit coming to Massachusetts’ cities?
/by Jim Stergios…Massachusetts’ use of state oversight boards can help clean up the messes made by poor management in our cities, but BUT don’t solve their core issues. The challenges that Massachusetts…
Mass. charter schools: No sector like it in the US
/by Jim Stergios…Plan for Boston.” Its core message was nested in the dozens of pages of the state’s landmark 1993 Education Reform Act, along with high-quality standards and accountability through teacher and…
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Civil War Historian Delivers Keynote at Education Event
/by Editorial Staff…U.S. history-rich core knowledge curriculum that featured University of Virginia Professor Emeritus E.D. Hirsch, Jr., and Andrew J. Rotherham, former Clinton administration aide and co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education….
Reactions To House Health Reform Plan: Confusion, Cheers, Concerns
/by Editorial Staffhttp://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/05/health-reform-reactions Times like this separate the true health reform wonks from the wannabes. Did you spend your weekend poring through H.4070, An Act relative to Health Care Quality Improvement and…
GOP pushes carrot approach to insurance, over ObamaCare mandate’s stick
/by Editorial Staff…have a tax credit for about $2,500 for an adult. I think a family of four could get about $8,000 and that would buy the core insurance that we want…
A Challenge to Economic Freedom: Declining Labor Participation
/by Editorial Staff…trend. A Challenge to Economic Freedom: Declining Labor Participation The Impact on Women In the commonwealth, women have been particularly hard hit. In 1999, about 63 percent of Hispanic and…