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Fewer Massachusetts children than usual are attending public schools this year — but the homeschool student body may have doubled. Statewide enrollment in Massachusetts public schools was down 3.9 percent from last year as of October 1, 2020, according to data provided to New Boston Post by the Massachusetts Department
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Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education — someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has administered an elementary, middle, or high school for at least a couple of years or so. This
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More than 600 students and alumni at a Catholic college in Worcester are expressing outrage that the chaplain's office of the school sent out an email message expressing support for Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage. The group is threatening to withhold donations to the school unless school officials
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"… reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." — George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
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Will the coronavirus emergency result in more families in Massachusetts homeschooling their kids this fall? The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is not ready to say, but some parents are saying yes.
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With the onset of Common Core, Massachusetts's education standards for public schools have declined. How can the state regain lost ground? It's actually not that hard. Solid standards already exist. What's needed is the will to implement them.
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There won't be any football for the fans to watch this year, so what does that mean for UMass Amherst's coaching staff? Will coaches still be getting paid? Yes.
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She is regarded as the "greatest American Catholic Writer" according to one of the books I use in my classes (The Catholic Spirit). Bishop Robert Barron filmed a documentary of her, as part of his The Pivotal Players of Catholicism series.
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