Fewer high school grads in jobs pipeline

  Danielle Pellegrine race downfield in a game of “ultimate ball.” Chasing her, on right, is fellow Millis Middle School student Alex Golash. MUSIC FROM A homemade CD blares from […]

 <!– Illustration by Jon Cannell –>Jesse Gerson-Neider, Somerville Jalene Tamerat, Boston Anna Gelinas, LongmeadowCharter schools show what we can accomplishBy Jessie Gerson-Nieder I am a seventh-grade English and social studies […]

Nearly 75 percent of the students in the Holyoke public schools come from low-income families. At the city’s Lynch Middle School, that figure is 84 percent, giving it one of […]

NOTE: Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor after this edition of CommonWealth went to press.Like any good Democrat, Sen. Ted Kennedy is hoping that his party […]

Teaching jobs in Massachusetts public schools may not pay as well as such private-sector occupations as nursing and technical writing, but in most communities teachers are doing relatively well, financially. […]

By most measures, K-12 public education in Massachusetts is in better shape than in other states. We can boast higher scores on standardized tests, more spending per student, and fewer […]

set amid the row houses and apartment buildings of the poor, mostly Hispanic community of Bushwick, the New York Harbor School seems a long way from the open water. The […]

The Bay State’s public colleges and universities attract a sizeable number of students from Boston, but they seem to be more valued as a higher-ed option in other parts of […]

This special issue of CommonWealth catalogues all of the unfinished business of the state’s 15-year-old education reform effort: the achievement gap between rich and poor, the high number of failing […]

Imagine a baseball team run on the same organizational model as a typical school. Players would join not because they love the game, but because reformers in the 19th century […]