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An ongoing battle over state power to take over underperforming schools and districts comes to a new head this week, as a new poll released...

The bill’s advocates gathered Wednesday over Zoom to argue that the high-stakes MCAS has been a failure, blocking vulnerable students from pursuing their goals in higher education and careers.

The Massachusetts Teachers Association threw its support to bills before the state legislature that would look to improve outcomes for public education and make higher education affordable.

The pro-MCAS coalition, Voices for Academic Equity, was convened by Education Reform Now Massachusetts and made up of a dozen education organizations and partners, the group said in a release.

Cambridge Public Schools Support State Bill to Eliminate MCAS Graduation Requirement | News | The Harvard Crimson

The shortage of school teachers and staffers has reached a crisis level in some public schools. An education advocacy group is making recommendations to fix that. Pennsylvania serves more than 1.7-million students in grades K through 12. ...

"The score ... is simply a measure of who is a good test taker."

Let’s engage in a discussion on how we can assess our schools’ performance using a full range of goals that will nurture and educate the whole child.

Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes is trying to overcome the "divide and conquer" politics of the Walker years in his Senate campaign.

A decade’s worth of data shows how much a global profile and a health international population help colleges attract students from abroad.