While much of the country is embracing the science of reading, Massachusetts is still fighting the “Reading Wars.”
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We need to confront the state’s long decline in student achievement
Massachusetts NAEP scores are down to where they were 20 years ago. The deterioration in the quality of public education in the state had been underway for nearly a decade by the time the pandemic hit.
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Here’s how to combat Trump’s coup
As this coup unfolds, the most crucial thing people need to combat it is reliable, centralized information. Consider this an appeal to those of our elected leaders who recognize these events for what they are: We need you to develop a communications strategy with the utmost urgency.
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Small businesses should not pay for Massachusetts’s $2.1 billion unemployment insurance mistake
The real question is, will state elected officials return to their default settings by expecting job creators to shoulder the burden through higher taxes, or will they learn from past UI missteps and seek meaningful reforms?
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The dark side of AI: Climate chaos, pollution, and injustice
Unless we have a seat at the table to set regulations, the AI data center boom will hurt Black and brown frontline communities like mine in Roxbury first and worst.
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Trump’s reckless attack on birthright citizenship
We fought many battles like this during the first Trump administration, and we expect to fight many more still.
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State is committed to authorizing ‘cannabis cafes’
Massachusetts was the first state to legalize cannabis retailers on the East Coast, and is poised to lead the way again in adopting regulations to allow for social consumption sites — or cannabis cafes.
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Why police officers should get sabbaticals
If we take seriously the idea of sabbaticals as a valuable break from the demands of daily work life and a time to recharge before returning, rejuvenated, to that routine, there may be no group for whom the restorative power of a well-planned sabbatical makes more sense that police officers.
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Josh Kraft would face long odds in race against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
It’s no coincidence that no Boston mayor has lost reelection since 1949.
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Getting the Boston Public Schools rightsizing right
There will be a lot of conversation about whether these particular schools should close and whether the process involved the right people at the right time. Just as important:: how closures and consolidations are implemented and what happens to students and educators in the process.