students
Here’s what will change with the new SAT
Starting in March 2016, students will be taking a new version of the SAT. The redesigned SAT claims that it will,
Education
Massachusetts
DeLeo begins counting votes on transgender Bathroom Bill
BOSTON – Speaker Robert DeLeo, the Democratic leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, is polling lawmakers to learn how the votes might line up on the so-called Bathroom Bill, which would let transgender people use public restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity but not their anatomical
Massachusetts
McKenna, Suffolk trustees reach accord as AG opens probe
BOSTON – Margaret McKenna, the embattled president of Suffolk University, and the school's board of trustees have reached an agreement regarding her future at the downtown college, according to an announcement Thursday that came as state Attorney General Maura Healey confirmed she is seeking information from the board related
Massachusetts
Charter school debate exposes tensions within teachers union
STATE HOUSE — Leadership of the Massachusetts Teachers Association has vowed to fight a ballot initiative to expand charter schools with everything it has, but the issue has exposed strife within the union heading into new leadership elections in May. The MTA Board of Directors over the weekend backed away from
Massachusetts
Amherst College slapped with sex allegations by ex-lecturer
AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College has responded to a raunchy wrongful-dismissal lawsuit by describing its allegations – that a supervisor urged female teaching assistants to have sex with students to boost enrollment in Spanish classes – as "frivolous," and by asserting that the lecturer who sued was legitimately let go. The
Massachusetts
The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers
It was once a matter of common sense that teachers cannot teach what they do not know. And research supports the view that a teacher's knowledge of his or her subject area is, so far, the best and only predictor of student achievement. In Massachusetts, common sense guided
Barack Obama
Obama visits mosque tied to controversial imams
CATONSVILLE, Md. — President Barack Obama paid his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, but he chose one that has ties with controversial teachers and leaders, including one who has preached that homosexuality is immoral and "something which we despise." A former leader of the mosque,
Massachusetts
UMass-Lowell faces lawsuit spawned from affair gone bad
LOWELL – A student from Cameroon claims in a lawsuit that he was robbed of due process by University of Massachusetts-Lowell administrators and was unfairly expelled over domestic kidnapping charges that his lawyer says were dismissed in district court. The case offers an extreme example of how romantic relationships on campus
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