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Massachusetts can't sustain 29 state college campuses and within the next 10 years will have to reduce the number, the president of the University of Massachusetts said. "Demographically, there's no way that 29 will survive," said Marty Meehan, president of the University of Massachusetts,
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The deaths, in the same week last month, of the great scholar of the Middle East Bernard Lewis and the great scholar of Russia Richard Pipes are a warning to American conservatives: don't give up on the universities. Lewis and Pipes are being rightfully remembered for their influence
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When I graduated with my bachelor's degree in English at the end of the 2011 academic year, I panicked. If you've seen John Mullaney's new Netflix special Kid Gorgeous, you'll know why it wasn't just the springtime sun on my
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We are regularly told what the public or Congress or schools should do to increase school safety and prevent more school shootings. We even have a former U.S. Secretary of Education (Arne Duncan) suggesting that high school students not attend school until schools have been made safer for them.
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A recent graduate of Providence College who made statements supporting the Christian view of marriage has lost his job at a bookstore on campus after an administrator got a no-trespass order against him following an encounter over her job performance. Michael Smalanskas, who graduated this past Sunday, was irked by
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The December 2015 re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required all states that wanted Title I money to help school districts with low-income students to develop and submit a four-year plan, under the control of the state's education department. All state plans had to be "
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It's so huge that most of those in the position of making education policy want to pretend the elephant isn't there. The problem to be solved in their eyes is not why increasing federal and state funds targeted to low-performing schools and students over 50 years
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On Monday, hundreds of Hopkinton High School parents were alerted via email of an "extremely troubling act" that stripped this suburban school of its "sense of safety" and provoked police involvement. Was it a bomb? A knife? A gun?
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