Naples v. Massachusetts on the Seat Belt Freedom Index
…road on a moped, sometimes those mopeds on the sidewalk (but only when cars aren’t parked there)… There is the Mergellina district with heroine and, uh, other things. There is…
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Participatory Democracy Dept.
/by Steve Poftak…a call for eliminating gun control, a request to expand use of off-road vehicles in state parks, and a ‘9-11 was a hoax perpetrated by conservatives’ entry. I’m guessing this…
A LOT of GBH tote bags
/by Alan Petrillo…to the Olympian enshrinement of Ken Burns, Buster Bunny, and Emily Rooney in WGBH’s new technicolor monstrosity of a road hazard. How can a place that really, really needs $20…
Eating his words
/by Jim Stergios…of eight “non-selective urban high schools that are on the road to success in helping their students achieve at high levels (the study’s parameters were 50% minority and 45% low-income).”…
Gov. Patrick’s Regulatory Regime for Payment Reform
/by Joshua Archambault…less competitive and innovative, more consolidated, and much more expensive under the vision being laid out. The second approach is one in which the Commonwealth lays out a very broad…
If you thought of them as customers, existing ones would be important
/by Steve Poftak…of open road tolling, so its disappointing to see the Turnpike do this, unless its part of some brilliant political strategy whereby the Turnpike alienates as many political constituencies as…
You should go faster
/by Steve Poftak…Auditor Joe DeNucci has found that a number of folks are being overcharged by the FastLane system. Peter Samuel of Toll Road News looks into the issue and finds that,…
Border Tolls Are Coming
/by Steve Poftak…like it, but it will leave each state with more transportation money. The last piece of the puzzle would be a move to open-road tolling, which seems to happening here….
Day 9 – Tested innovation for failing urban schools
/by Jim Stergios…be limited to (1) setting the rules of the road and (2) evaluating the schools on whether they have delivered improvements in student achievement. These truly independent school-based options all…
Giving Voters the Information They Need
/by Stephen Lisauskas…year because they had to lay off the road maintenance crew? Would it force the Commonwealth to reduce programs for at-risk youth, creating 20,000 more hours of idle time in…
Governor Patrick Found the Silver Bullet for Cost Containment?
/by Joshua Archambault…much “fussing over the details” will remain even after he files the bill. Broad themes He deserves credit for putting the first bill on the table. As has been the…
Day 2: Strengthen the objective MCAS test
/by Jim Stergios…Nor did anyone then believe that our 4th- and 8th-grade students would soon rank among the top-scoring nations on the Trends in International mathematics and Science Study exams. Notwithstanding the…
Day 5: Prepare effective teachers
/by Jim Stergios…for the state curriculum frameworks. Teachers’ plans should be approved by the teacher’s principal, who should ultimately be held accountable for the academic growth and performance of his or her…
Day 11: Put virtue in virtual school regulations
/by Jim Stergios…is a completely internet-based model that provides students in rural as well urban settings everything from AP classes, summer intensive work and remedial support to a full-fledged K-12 curriculum. FLVS…
Pulitzer Winner Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams & American Independence
/by Editorial Staff…education. He knew his Cicero, he knew his Livy, he knew his Homer. The only thing, two things I think that don’t figure on that Harvard curriculum interestingly, are, are…
Obama must do better on charters
/by Jim Stergios…and Kevin Johnson (Sacramento), who are local spokespeople with a national profile. And then there is the role of Democrats for Education Reform, which has been an unstoppable, pro-charter force…
Proven reforms for urban students
/by Jim Stergios…the principal testing ground for experiments with longer school days, tutoring, curriculum, culture and more. There are certainly more well-springs of innovation, and one really interesting source of innovation is…
UVA Prof. Dan Willingham on Learning Science & K-12 Schooling
/by Editorial Staff…they had two of their national championships, and now they can add a third to it. So at a time when we spend a lot of our time focused on…
Pioneer Study: Specifics on School Pandemic Relief Spending Hard to Come By
/by Editorial Staff…their spending plans. While there is subsequent reporting to the state on how districts are spending the funds, much of it is broken into broad categories such as “classroom technology.”…
Massachusetts, yet again
/by Liam Day…professor at New York University. We can’t give up on education schools altogether. . . About 25 percent of them have turned the corner and fundamentally reevaluated their curriculum, so…
EdWeek: Adopt standards or forget RttT funds
/by Jim Stergios…unnecessary curriculum changes. Problem is that EdWeek‘s Catherine Gewertz published a report the very same day entitled “Ed Dept to States: In Race to Top, Only Common Core Will Do”…
Francine Klagsbrun on Golda Meir’s Leadership and the State of Israel
/by Editorial Staff…very little nothing nationalism as such, people saw the Palestinians as refugees from the War of Independence. It was just the beginning of a nationalist movement. But Golda made the…
Go back to the Governor's bill
/by Jim Stergios…curricula will not be able to charge if a district seeks to “replicate” of any part of that curriculum. Question: What about the SABIS school in Springfield? It is one…
The Perfect Storm in Gloucester
/by Jim Stergios…multi-age classrooms and a curriculum based on the area’s rich arts heritage… It had only to do with how these supposed public servants could execute out their best political tap-dance…
Education leadership but not here
/by Jim Stergios…what they say – choice alone is not going to get it done. You need standards and accountability, including great curriculum frameworks and teacher testing, AND you need choice and…
Noble rhetoric, base motives
/by Jim Stergios…from charters, teacher testing and state curriculum frameworks, which ensure that we are serious about teaching kids what is needed to access a liberal arts education. The bête noire here…
Studying the Humanities in the 2020s
/by Jude Iredell…free speech, leadership crises at elite colleges, and a national reckoning over plagiarism — this intern finds himself finishing his history degree after a most peculiar college experience. It’s no…
Admissions lotteries would harm vocational-technical schools
/by Charles Chieppo…and occupational excellence that drives burgeoning demand for these schools The vocational-technical high schools in Massachusetts are a national model, but failure to understand the elements of that success threatens…
Study: Ed Reform Has Improved Academic Performance and Equity
/by Editorial Staff…Reform Act in 1993, the Commonwealth had academic standards and curriculum frameworks but didn’t hold schools accountable for teaching them. Many schools and teachers chose not to teach to the…
Pulitzer Winner Joan Hedrick on Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin
/by Editorial Staff…and the Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader. She was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship in 1983 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 1983 and 1998. She earned an AB…