Education

A backlash to standardized tests has been fueled by complaints they take up too much classroom time and questions about how well they measure readiness for college or careers.

Preschoolers are getting suspended or expelled at a rate three times higher than K-12 students.

The University of Massachusetts is simplifying its message for prospective in-state students and their families: If you make under $75,000, you can come to any one of the system’s campuses for free. There’s been a surge in state funding for financial aid in recent years, especially since the passage of a surtax on high-earners in 2022 that has generated more…

Battle lines continue to form around a ballot question to change a key component of the education reform law that some say made Massachusetts the best educated state in the country, separating politicians who are used to standing on the same side of most issues, and simultaneously creating strange allies. The day after U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat,...

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education could be called into court to desegregate Massachusetts schools.

An educator with experience advising the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) believes it’s time to sue the state agency if it doesn’t do more to reduce racial imbalances in public schools. “They still have an opportunity before someone files a lawsuit,” said Dr. Raul Fernandez, the former chair of DESE’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council (RAIC). “My...

Should MCAS be ended as a graduation requirement in Massachusetts or be kept as-is? Voters will decide in the 2024 election.

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Should tipped workers get a minimum wage in Massachusetts? It’s on the ballot for in the 2024 election, and we dove into the issue to see what supporters and opponents of Ballot Question 5.

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Massachusetts voters will decide on five ballot questions this election. Question 2 presents an issue that could impact students, parents and teachers in Massachusetts. If approved, it would eliminate the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement. A no vote would keep it as is. “I know how much harm that has done,” said Deb McCarthy, the vice president of…

Members of the union demonstrated before school on Monday as they continued their push for a new contract.

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The Boston Teachers Union held walk-ins at over a dozen schools in the city as contract negotiations drag on between the union and school district. Before-school rallies were held at walk-ins at 15 schools in the city, putting pressure on the contract negotiations that have gone on for months, the union said in a news release. The Boston Teachers Unions…

Though she’s no longer teaching, Kimberlee Maniscalco’s thoughts often find their way back to her students.  “I loved them and taught them as if they were family to me. We were. I called them our class family,” she said.  The fond memories of her kindergarten class in Winthrop live on in the mementos and keepsakes she still holds on...

The learning loss that came about as a result of the pandemic and its shift towards remote schooling that began more than four years ago is still showing up in standardized test results, state officials said as they released the latest batch of MCAS scores. “The road back from the pandemic is not short,” Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler said during…

Massachusetts’ teacher retention rate is higher than the national average, but it is lower than pre-pandemic levels.

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Arizona State University is launching a program for parents and guardians of their students called “Thriving in Your Empty Nest Chapter.”

A woman allegedly pointed a weapon and yelled crude comments as she repeatedly sped by Wakefield’s inaugural Porchfest, where children were in the crowd.

The Boston School Committee’s chair person helped kindergarteners on their first day of school Monday — 70 years after she started kindergarten at the very same school. Jeri Robinson remembers her first day at Hale Elementary School clearly — and credits it as the spark that led to her decades-long career in education. “I remember going home on the very…

Stanford University tops LinkedIn’s list as the No.1 MBA program in the world in 2024.

A Massachusetts mother says her son, who has autism, ended up at an unregulated school in New York due to an error by education officials. Roberta Biscan of Wilmington says the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education wrongly approved Shrub Oak International School in Yorktown, New York, as her son’s special education school. “Connor is a funny, smart,...