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King Philip Forfeits Six Girls Softball Wins Because Coaches Used Walkie-Talkie To Communicate With Catcher On Field
The girls softball team at King Philip Regional High School has forfeited six wins from the spring 2024 season for using without…
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New Hampshire Principal Holding Line On School Dance Ban — For Now
The principal of the public high school in Exeter, New Hampshire is holding firm on a ban on school dances despite an…
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Somerville School Health Official Declines To Call For Mask Mandate In City’s Public Schools
Coronavirus is way down this year in the Somerville public schools, a school official said. The school district averages between 30 and…
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Former New England Patriot Matt Light Running For Foxborough School Committee
Former New England Patriots left tackle Matt Light is running to be a member of the Foxborough School Committee. The libertarian-minded…
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Social Media Photo of Confederate-Flag-Wearing Student Has School Official Suggesting Banning Cell Phones During School Day
A student wore a Confederate flag to school during a homecoming-themed America Day event last week at Monument Mountain Regional High…
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Maybe It’s Time To Get Rid of Football, School Official Says
A member of the school board of Nashua, New Hampshire said the city's high school should consider getting rid of…
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Pittsfield School Committee Ditches Columbus Day
"Indigenous Peoples Day" will now be commemorated in October in the western Massachusetts city's schools. "The Europeanization…
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Why Can’t We Raise Academic Requirements for K-12 Teachers?
There is one good reason that the most recent review of research on teacher professional development in mathematics in the USA almost…
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Immigration Authorities Not Welcome in Lowell Schools
The Lowell School Committee voted 5-0 to ban the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent from the city's…
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The next education frontier: Classroom choice
Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform. We find…
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Italian Home for Children: innovative instruction with new urban garden
It is a hot and humid sunny day in late August as a small group of children come running outside. They are…
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Make way for ducklings – from classroom to pond
MILTON – In an annual tradition, children who attend Glover Elementary School line corridor walls and campus walkways to watch as ducklings hatched…
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On charter schools, let the parents choose
In November, Massachusetts residents will vote on Question 2, which, if passed, would allow the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education…
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Why high school stays with us forever
For better or worse, many of us never forget high school: the unrequited romantic crushes, chronic embarrassment, desperate struggles for popularity, sexual…
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The Common Core journalism blackout
Earlier this month, a deliberately anonymous teacher set forth some of the problems she saw in the Common Core-based test she…
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Vermont college once run by Sanders’ wife to close
A college once run by Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife Jane has announced it's closing in two weeks, thanks to…
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Spreading the Massachusetts ‘education miracle’
Last week, the NewBostonPost reported that the Michigan state Senate is considering dropping the national Common Core standards and replacing them and…
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Hiking school aid draws praise yet no answers on funding
BOSTON – Formula changes that would let more state money flow to local school districts won praise Friday from labor and school leaders…
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Are all black students falling behind?
A recent report by The Education Trust, a nonprofit working on educational justice, reveals that while there has been an improvement in…
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War on Asian success
For American public education, 2015 was a dismal year, at least by the numbers. But don't blame the kids. Parents…
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Closing boys’ academic gap comes into focus
CAMBRIDGE – Over the years, a lot of ink has been spilled over the "boy crisis" in American schools. As young…
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WATCH: How accurate are campus sexual assault statistics?
Anyone who pays attention to the news has heard that American universities are in the midst of a campus "rape crisis.…
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Baker gains allies in push for voc-tech school aid
BOSTON – Advocates pushing for more resources to help move vocational students into careers are aligned with Gov. Charlie Baker as they seek…
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Acts of deception have morphed into bullying
Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander…
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Trump fraud case can continue, NY court rules
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York court on Tuesday refused to throw out a fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump over his…
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Danvers teen who killed teacher sentenced
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A teenager who raped and killed his high school math teacher was sentenced Friday to life in prison with…
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Deadly airstrikes hit hospitals, school in northern Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes blamed on Russia hit at least two hospitals and a school in northern Syria on Monday, killing and wounding…
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Mass. school leaders rap Baker on charter push
BOSTON – Local school officials directly challenged Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's commitment to traditional public education on Tuesday, confronting him over…
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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…
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Walsh steps into Boston Latin Black Lives Matter debate
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh entered a cauldron of simmering racial tension at Boston Latin Academy on Monday as students donned black clothes…
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Deadly Pakistani school attack raises security questions
CHARSADDA, Pakistan (AP) — Once again, Islamic militants stormed a school in northeastern Pakistan in a deadly attack that lasted for hours. And…
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FBI investigating bomb threats at several Mass. schools
The Massachusetts State Police announced Tuesday that police agencies at the local, state, and federal levels, including the FBI, were investigating a…
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Virginia district cancels school over Islamic lesson anger
VERONA, Va. (AP) — Schools in a Shenandoah Valley county in Virginia were closed Friday and a weekend holiday concert and athletic events…
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Scrooge in schools could teach many lessons
"Merry Christmas!" was popularized in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the familiar tale of Scrooge, a heartless, penny-pinching…
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Family sues after police question 3rd-grader for hours
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A third-grader was taken off a school bus and questioned for hours by police because another girl…
