GOV. HEALEY HAS good work to build upon when it comes to helping students of color enroll and succeed in college. The governor supports expanding “college-in-high school” initiatives as a […]
John Schneider
Posted inEducation
The real art of the deal
Commitment and Commonsense: Leading Education Reform in Massachusetts By David P. Driscoll Cambridge: Harvard Education Press 256 pages BOOKS ABOUT THE ins and outs about how laws are implemented do […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
Mending the social fabric
The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism By Yuval Levin New York: Basic Books 262 pages SPEND SOME TIME in West Virginia or Kentucky and […]
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Back to school on the American Dream
Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream By Suzanne Mettler New York: Basic Books 261 pages the american dream is in trouble. As our […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Uncategorized
Patrick targets the achievement gap
In a passionate speech before a packed house at UMass Boston on Wednesday, Gov. Deval Patrick announced that we must close the achievement gap in our schools if opportunity is […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
Revenue crossroads for transportation
In his recent response to the MassINC report “Next Stop, Massachusetts,” Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Mullan says: “Departure from the cost-cutting, efficiency-finding, and culture-changing approach we have taken would be a […]
Posted inEconomy
Build to suit
early last year, MassINC released Reconnecting Massachusetts Gateway Cities, a report on how the state’s historic mill communities have been struggling to make the shift to the New Economy. It […]
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Credit report
at the core of MassINC’s mission is the belief that all citizens of Massachusetts should have the opportunity to pursue the American dream. And as we’ve written in this space […]
