Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common Core's standards as the silver bullet that will make all K-12 students college and career ready.
This confidence is remarkable for two reasons. First, Common Core's standards in English language arts and mathematics are vastly different from those we had in Massachusetts before the state board of education voted in July 2010 to dump them for Common Core's standards, for $250 million in Race to the Top money – standards that led to greatly increased student achievement in reading, mathematics, and science in our regular public schools and in our vocational/technical high schools.
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Producers of a Mark Wahlberg movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing want to recreate the police shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in the Watertown neighborhood where it happened.
Representatives for "Patriots Day" sent fliers to residents of Laurel Street this month asking for their cooperation in obtaining permission to film on their street.
