education reform

In 2017, Terri Lyne Carrington founded the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, a program at the distinguished Boston school premised on dismantling a patriarchal system that’s disenfranchised female and nonbinary performers.

Gov. Charlie Baker is urging the voice of the business community in Massachusetts to be heard in the current debate over school finance reform. Addressing…

Cathy N. Davidson is a lifelong educational innovator - and instigator. After twenty-five years as a professor and an administrator leading innovation at…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, during his State of the Commonwealth Address a week ago, touted a new education model called “school empowerment zones.”…

Massachusetts education officials today released the annual accountability designations for the state’s public schools. About a third of the state’s…

The public schools in Holyoke, Massachusetts opened this morning to begin the first full academic year under state receivership. While a district…

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin says a new state education law will ensure a quality education for the state's students while "bending the curve" on…

A veteran educator with a track record of turning around struggling urban schools will be put in charge of a troubled western Massachusetts school system.…

Newly appointed State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says her first order of business is to listen to parents, teachers and administrators around…

With state receivership for the public schools in Holyoke, Massachusetts appearing increasingly likely, the city’s Superintendent of Schools is hoping for…