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Mattahunt Elementary School recognized for outstanding student achievements
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Local News
Mattahunt Elementary School recognized for outstanding student achievements
The Boston-based school improvement organization EdVestors has awarded their School on the Move Prize this year to Mattahunt Elementary School in Mattapan.
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Time’s up for MCAS
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Editorial
Time’s up for MCAS
Coming up on the Nov. 5 ballot is a question that will decide whether the longstanding MCAS test will remain a requirement for high school graduation statewide
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Decades after education reform, Mass. schools still stratified
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Decades after education reform, Mass. schools still stratified
Public schooling data in Massachusetts tells a tale of two states. In one, surging household incomes coupled with ample taxable property provide for peerless public education. In the other, an aspiring citizenry must surmount the same barriers as ever.
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Program nurtures ‘transformative’ school leaders
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Program nurtures ‘transformative’ school leaders
Six Boston educators are among a group of 15 selected as the second cohort of a fellowship program that aims to equip leaders with tools to improve the high school experience for students and staff.
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Local News
Achievement gaps reopening, but education formula is static
Earth’s oldest living social compact, the Massachusetts Constitution, calls us to cherish the public schools. For state politicians, providing adequate public education is an unavoidable duty. Only voters can render judgment.
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State budget makes strides in education efforts
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State budget makes strides in education efforts
On July 29, when Governor Maura Healey signed the budget for Fiscal Year 2025, it finalized a process allocating $57.8 billion in funding for the commonwealth and state-funded organizations, including millions for educational efforts across the state.
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Opinion
This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever
Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. That tide includes bans on state funding for teaching DEI in schools, public colleges and state agencies.
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Opinion
Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them
Although state and local leaders are building comprehensive plans to increase the number of Black teachers, few plans include the recruitment of more Black principals, who play a critical role in Black teachers’ development.
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Black teachers: longer hours, lower pay, better attitude
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Black teachers: longer hours, lower pay, better attitude
Working longer hours, typically in under-resourced schools, Black teachers often climb up the rougher side of the educational mountain compared with their white peers. And, like all teachers, they dealt with the COVID-19 disruptions in their profession, trying to engage and teach to camera-off students over Zoom.
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Opinion
The whitewashing of education – and how to stop it
No matter how much the right derides the word, the Black community needs to stay woke. In recent years, we’ve witnessed a disturbing trend that threatens the foundations of our democratic society: the rise of book bans, curriculum censorship and attacks on historical narratives in our educational institutions.
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Opinion
Fight for the freedom to learn
A little over a year ago, the College Board unveiled its long-awaited draft AP African American Studies curriculum. What happened next was sad — and all too predictable.
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Opinion
The steep price of school underfunding
There are numbers you know, and then there are numbers you feel. For instance, I know that Black children make up 15% of this country’s K-12 public schools. I also know that Black folks make up roughly the same percentage of U.S. citizens. 
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