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New York City (CNA/EWTN News) — Children in conflict areas desperately need an education, but violence and lack of funding finds one in four of them out of school. A staggering 24 million kids living in conflict areas around the world are missing out on their primary education according to
Massachusetts
BOSTON – A second undercover video portraying Common Core as an exercise in profiteering by publishers including Boston textbook giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt surfaced Thursday, showing an executive of the company saying such education initiatives are "never about the kids." The video, from Project Veritas, a nonprofit journalism outfit
Massachusetts
BOSTON – The Southbridge Public Schools, which have had seven superintendents and seven high school principals since 2011, should be designated chronically underperforming and placed into receivership, Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester recommended on Friday. The Level 5 designation, which would put the Southbridge schools under state control, will be discussed at
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Project Veritas, a nonprofit "guerilla reporting" organization that has made headlines exposing questionable practices at taxpayer-backed activist groups like now-defunct ACORN, released an undercover video on Tuesday that it says shows Common Core is little more than a publishing ploy to sell more textbooks. The national Common
Massachusetts legislature
BOSTON – Senate President Stanley Rosenberg touched a nerve on Monday when he painted a bleak picture of the prospect of advancing a bill to increase the number of charter schools through the Senate this year, but his read of fellow senators jibes with what supporters of expansion are hearing from
Abortion
BOSTON – After graduating from college in May, New Jersey native Jane Riccardi headed for New England on a rare assignment – to spur on the infant pro-life student movement in one of the most progressive pockets of the country. Although Riccardi, 23, had spent some time as a student working on
campus life
WENHAM – More than a year after the Lynn Public Schools cut ties with Gordon College over its policies on same-sex relations, which are part of the Christian school's detailed code of moral conduct, the college has reconnected with other North Shore communities and continues to look for opportunities
Massachusetts
BOSTON – You clicked, we listened. Although 2015 was littered with tragic stories and wacky tales, NewBostonPost's most-popular posts ranged from columns and editorials to political stories sniffed out away from the beaten path. Here's our countdown of the year's top 10 items: 10. Column:
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