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By Tom Birmingham   APRIL 13, 2017 Massachusetts’ story is well known in the education world. In the wake of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act, student achievement shot up, and the Commonwealth’s students became the nation’s best performers. The law worked...

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120508/OPINION/205080303/-1/NEWS06 April was National Poetry Month and there’s nowhere that designation should have more meaning than in Massachusetts, where John Adams’ 1780 state constitution explicitly instructs future leaders to “cherish the interests of literature.” Every region of Massachusetts has produced great poets....