Colleges need an experiential learning revolution
Massachusetts is more closely linked to higher education than any state. We should lead its innovation-fueled makeover.
We need fundamentally new models for teaching and learning, new models that need to break the monopoly of “sage on the stage” teaching and lean into an experiential learning revolution – a dramatic increase in real-world, apprenticeship-based, internship-based, and work-based learning.
THE CODCAST
Mass. Health Connector chief: State must ‘deal with the reality in front of us’ as critical health care deadline looms
On the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute spoke with Audrey Gasteier, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector. Gasteier about the current crisis facing residents of the Commonwealth should the federal government fail to renew premium tax credits.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
State House labor pains: The long fight carries on for unionizing legislative aides
House, Senate staffers hope convention vote will provide new traction for stalled effort
Four Supreme Judicial Court cases to watch in November
November oral arguments will consider attorney pay rates, whistleblowers, and tobacco verdicts
When communities lose trust: One year after Steward Health’s bankruptcy and the death of two hospitals
How Boston’s largest neighborhood and a rural North-Central town are grappling with the loss of Carney Hospital and the Nashoba Valley Medical Center
Commonwealth in depth
Mass. faces grim reality of fewer international students
Even before the second Trump administration, international students were choosing other destinations, threatening key sectors of the Bay State’s economy
BY THE NUMBERS
Phoning it in – Mass. residents still lean toward in-person care as telehealth booms
New polling shows Bay Staters primarily continue to receive their health care the old-fashioned way
From the Archives
Rooting for the home team
Minor-league baseball is making fans across the Commonwealth
Boston housing permitting lags as residents express support for zoning changes
When it comes to Boston’s housing goals, success depends on where you put the goalposts
Winter special election scheduled to fill Lowell-based Senate seat
Galvin also issues order citing ‘urgent circumstances’ around absentee ballots in Lawrence
Tibbits-Nutt out, Eng elevated in abrupt shakeup at MassDOT
MBTA general manager will also work as interim transportation secretary for the foreseeable future
‘Contactless’ fares quickly grow popular among T riders
A year in, one in four taps now made using credit card or mobile wallet
In fight against Nantucket housing development, an unusual battle cry
Opponents cite ‘environmental justice’ designation in bid to stop a project that would bring 39 units of affordable housing to the exclusive island
Planning for wildfire risk a puzzle for homeowners, Mass. officials
Even as Massachusetts summers trend hotter and drier, policymakers are still largely focused on flooding as the existential climate threat to housing and infrastructure.
New FEMA flood maps prompt questions, concerns across Massachusetts
Property owners around the state confront the need for flood insurance, though the full impact of the new maps isn’t clear
State school building program favors wealthier districts, leaving lower-income urban students in aging, dilapidated buildings, according to new study
Under the state formula, in Gateway Cities like Lynn, extensive renovation projects and new school construction are often a pipe dream
Tepper stands by Mass. climate goals, ramps up outreach on Canadian wind power
The state’s top environmental official in an interview with CommonWealth Beacon urges Massachusetts to push forward on its clean energy transition while cutting costs.
Massachusetts offered up $35M in offshore wind tax breaks. They’ve gone unclaimed for two straight years.
It’s the latest indicator that the offshore wind industry was sluggish even before Trump took office
Healey convenes solar leaders in search of energy answers
The governor is locked in a battle to reduce energy costs while meeting climate goals in the face of federal headwinds
