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BURLINGTON, Vt. — Colorful pins used to inform a new acquaintance of one's gender identity, similar to ones distributed at July's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, are now popping up on college campuses. At Champlain College in Vermont, such "pronoun pins" are making an appearance
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BOSTON — A week after a Supreme Judicial Court ruling delivered a fatal blow to their efforts to put the future of Common Core educational standards into the hands of voters, the woman who spearheaded the doomed ballot initiative said she's only just begun to consider what the next
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BOSTON — City Councilor Tito Jackson and former Democratic state Rep. Marty Walz engaged in what was at times a heated debate Tuesday over Question 2, which will ask voters state-wide this November whether to lift the cap on public charter schools. Although the impact of the November vote will be
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With the start of the new academic term now just weeks away, there's at least one controversy that is certain to roil American college campuses again this fall: anti-Israel activism and anti-Semitism on campus. On the heels of a 2015-2016 school year in which campus activists sought to
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BOSTON – U.S. News & World Report this week ranked five New England universities among the top 20 in the nation, and ranked seven of the region's smaller colleges among the top 20 American liberal arts schools. Although Princeton University (in New Jersey) claimed the top spot on
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Colleges with smaller student bodies, a focus on undergraduates, and stellar academic reputations are among the most expensive in Massachusetts, with Amherst College leading the pack, according to a NewBostonPost analysis of federal data. The total cost of attendance at Amherst was $66,572 last year. In order to provide
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As children head back to school, an increasing number of their homeschooled peers will be starting their academic year as well. Homeschooling in the United States is growing at a strong pace.
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BOSTON — Education Secretary James Peyser received a raucous reception at the University of Massachusetts Boston on Thursday, where his entreaties to spur growth outside campuses and cut dead wood within state higher education ran up against faculty demands for more funding. Peyser told the audience at a convocation ceremony on
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