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MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA
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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…


New Study Shows What Works for Civics Education
Americans strongly disagree about how our K-12 schools should teach our system of self-government. Dozens of organizations offer rival civics education resources and many of them don't work. A new study published jointly by Pioneer Institute and the National Association of Scholars offers in-depth evaluations of 15 leading civics programs, grades them on their effectiveness, and offers recommendations for how Americans should build upon these programs.

Award-Winner Prof. David Reynolds on Abraham Lincoln & American Civil War Culture
This week on “The Learning Curve," co-hosts Gerard Robinson and Cara Candal talk with David Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor of English and History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, selected as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Professor Reynolds shares what teachers and students alike should know about the culture of Civil War America, primary education in that era, and the wide variety of influences on Lincoln’s thinking and leadership.

Independent Institute’s Dr. Morgan Hunter on Teaching Greco-Roman History to High Schoolers
This week on “The Learning Curve," co-hosts Gerard Robinson and Cara Candal talk with Dr. Morgan Hunter, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in California, and co-author with Dr. Victor Davis Hanson and Dr. Williamson Evers, of the white paper, Is It Time for a “490 B.C. Project”?: High Schoolers Need to Know Our Classical Heritage.

Denying students the opportunity to study classic works of literature leads to a culture of mediocrity
This op-ed appeared in The Springfield Republican and The Lowell…

To Keep Our Republic, American Students Must Study The French Revolution
By Jamie Gass and Will Fitzhugh
This op-ed appeared in The…

How Massachusetts Showed the Way on Education Reform
By Jamie Gass & Charles Chieppo
Read this op-ed in The…

Op-ed: Our schools ignore US history at our peril
By Tom Birmimgham | Nov. 30, 2017
State must make good on requirement…

Op-ed: It’s Time to Strengthen—Not Reduce!—History in Our Classrooms
By Tom Birmingham
This op-ed appeared in the print edition…

Cursive and Historical Literacy: A Real World Example
In the age of computers and modern convenience, the relevancy…

Op-ed: The Great Statesman Cicero Presides Over The Ides Of March Forever
“How I could wish that you had invited me to that most glorious…

New Report on Advanced Civics for U.S. History Teachers, Preface by Churchill Biographer
Study Recommends That States Require Passage of U.S. History…

OP-ED: Lincoln’s Assassination and U.S. History
Read the full op-ed on The Springfield Republican Editorial Page and…

An Economic History of Health Care in Massachusetts 1990-2000
Author: Jerome H. Grossman, M.D.
This report examines the…