Massachusetts

News, analysis, and opinion about K-12 education in Massachusetts
Recruitment & Retention Mass. Bonus Program To Favor Ed. Schools
Massachusetts has decided to offer its $20,000 signing bonuses to teacher- candidates in education schools, and not to aspiring educators who learn to teach in a seven-week summer training course.
Jeff Archer, December 4, 2002
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3 min read
School Choice & Charters Long-Neglected Science On Rise at Prep Schools
One prominent historian has called science "the most neglected" part of the prep school curriculum. That situation is changing, though, as science assumes a higher profile in contemporary life, and as independent schools feel greater competition from science-oriented public schools.
David J. Hoff, November 6, 2002
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8 min read
Standards & Accountability Accountability Studies Find Mixed Impact on Achievement
How effective is accountability in raising student achievement? The evidence is mixed, according to a set of research papers presented last week.
Lynn Olson, June 19, 2002
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4 min read
School & District Management Research: Under the Microscope
Forget about big ideas and large-scale studies. When it comes to studying children's learning and development, a limited but growing group of researchers says thinking small is the way to go. Includes a list of resources, "Thinking Small: Where to Learn More."
Debra Viadero, April 24, 2002
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14 min read
Teacher Preparation Tools of the Trade
As education schools face pressure to retool, and as accelerated programs churn out new teachers, Shady Hill represents a third way of training educators.
Jeff Archer, February 27, 2002
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17 min read
Curriculum Linking Their Thinking
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, researchers are studying ways to link new technologies to student learning.
Andrew Trotter, January 30, 2002
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20 min read
School & District Management Research: Boys to Men
Some researchers think that boys' academic performance is suffering because educators have failed to recognize that boys and girls have much different learning styles. Includes a Q & A with William S. Pollack, director of the Center for Men and Young Men at McLean Hospital, and "Resources on Boys' Academic, Social Needs."
Michelle Galley, January 23, 2002
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14 min read
Education Bay State's Exam Has Left Its Mark
Recent improvements on the MCAS are major news in Massachusetts, which has lived up to its history of protest in the battle over the controversial assessment. And educators and policymakers in other states are watching closely.
John Gehring, November 21, 2001
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11 min read
Equity & Diversity One School, Two Cultures
Some Hispanic and Cambodian parents didn't believe their children were benefitting from the public schools in Lowell, Mass. So they took matters into their own hands by starting their own charter school. Includes the accompanying story, "Ethnic-Based Schools Popular."
Mary Ann Zehr, September 12, 2001
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15 min read
Teaching Profession Prep-School Program Opens Doors for Minority Teachers
Over more than a decade, Kelly Wise, the founder of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers at Phillips Academy here has helped 364 African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans complete master's and doctoral degrees leading to education careers.
Karla Scoon Reid, August 8, 2001
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8 min read
School Climate & Safety Seeds of Change
Four years after the death of a middle school counselor who had been assaulted on campus, educators in Lowell, Mass., say they are reaping the rewards of efforts to improve student discipline in middle schools.
Rich Shea, March 7, 2001
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21 min read
School & District Management Turning Points: Transforming Middle Schools
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A national design for middle school change, based on recommendations from the influential 1989 report by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development.
October 4, 2000
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1 min read
Student Achievement A Feast of Offerings
When Mary Cavalier glances up at the cafeteria ceiling, she sees subtle confirmation that her school is on the right track.
Ann Bradley, October 4, 2000
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9 min read
Teacher Preparation Mass. 'Bonus Babies' Get Crash Course
Participants in the Massachusetts signing-bonus program head into their first year of teaching with less than two months of training.
Jeff Archer, September 6, 2000
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10 min read
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