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You can read about it in the Times  here. Do note: "This further shows that poverty is not explaining the disparities...There's a...

A good reflection as we end this presidential term (and as the former Secretary of Education visits town ) on what's been missed: One ...

Per both Politico and EdWeek , while there is an increase in the dollar amount proposed for Title I, it's essentially just the School Im...

On Saturday, President Obama in a video message commented that we had too much testing in our schools, and that it needed to be limited. Th...

If you didn't watch President Obama's speech yesterday at Selma, go read or watch  it: What greater expression of faith in the Ame...

WPD has just released the motorcade route , in the hope of having people avoid it: Pleasant down from the airport, to the Newton Square ro...

...but no, no plans at this time to dismiss anyone from school early Wednesday, per Superintendent Boone. There will be a Connect-ed tomorr...

Tonight, Claremont Academy graduates. Next week, we start the big schools downtown. All graduations start at 6 pm; graduates have to get t...

Looks as though Congressional members of the education committee would really appreciate it if the Obama administration might take an intere...

It grieves me today to announce the death of irony: the Obama administration has announced a new Race to the Top...for equity. 

While I did not watch last night, I did follow the conversation on Twitter (try #SOTU and #SOTUedu ). The White House posted the full text ...

Good post over at The Indignant Teacher on the "Dam of Lies" around the Common Core and Race to the Top here in Massachusetts: ...

This is another of those "follow the spaghetti" articles on influence and money in education. This time, it's on the Joyce F...

The spring rush got away from me, so it has been some time since I've done any sort of an update on the re-authorization of the Elementa...

It's been an interesting couple of weeks for the Common Core standards. The Republican National Committee, meeting in Los Angeles, vo...

...you might go read Alan Simpson on his disappointment in the President's message on education.

I find it easier to go through the State of the Union and other such speeches the next day, once I can look at the full text. Here, from the...

The following is the poem Richard Blanco wrote and recited at yesterday's Presidential Inauguration. Along with being a civil engineer...

So we know the news from the top of the ticket--and there's a good letter here to President Obama this morning--but there were a number...