Irene Sege

In 1998, in the landmark Abbott v. Burke school finance ruling that the New York Times called “the most significant education case” since Brown v. Board of Education, the New […]

SOME QUESTIONS HAVE ARISEN about the “rigorous curriculum” called for in President Obama’s proposal for universal access to preschool, starting with children from low- and moderate-income families. My own daughters […]

  WITH GOVERNOR DEVAL PATRICK proposing substantial new investments in high-quality early education and President Obama calling for universal access to preschool in his State of the Union address, momentum […]

  ON SEPTEMBER 26, surrounded by children in the Robin Hood School library in Stoneham, Gov. Deval Patrick signed An Act Relative to Third Grade Reading Proficiency into law. Three weeks […]

Massachusetts has seen a dramatic increase in full-day kindergarten over the past decade and is poised for even more growth. With 83 percent of children in public school kindergarten now […]

When Gov. Deval Patrick and more than 150 legislators, early educators, early childhood advocates ,and state education leaders gathered at the State House last month to celebrate the Commonwealth’s newly […]

The results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress were announced yesterday and, once again, Massachusetts topped the country in fourth-grade reading. Yet only half of the Commonwealth’s fourth […]

State education officials are busy finishing the commonwealth’s application for the $500 million federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge, the Obama administration’s signature early education initiative. Massachusetts […]

Much of the research on the long-term effects of high-quality early education has focused on children from low-income families. What about children from middle class families? A new working paper […]