by Brandi Dewar and Erin Roache, leader teachers at Quinsigamond Children’s School Quinsigamond Community College has cut the staff at the campus’ top-rated Children’s School,…
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Category: Education
Open Letter to Commissioner Jeff Riley
Editors Note: The author has allowed us to publish this letter, which was sent to the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education July 23. By…
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The Board of Ed closes this school year on Tuesday
…and you can find the agenda here. The livestream will be here.My understanding is that so many people have signed up for public comment that they maxed…
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Two Worcester meetings next week
On Monday night the 29th at 6:30, the Doherty building committee meets to vote on the preferred schematic design. Read the rest at Whos of Who-cester
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Covid Doesn’t Care
COVID-19 doesn’t care about your politics.It doesn’t care about the economy or small businesses or the GDP.COVID-19 doesn’t care about learning loss.It doesn’t care about…
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Leave your worries on the doorstep
…it isn’t good when you start pulling blog post titles from the Depression era, but it’s definitely looking grim. Here’s The Atlantic in an article titled “The Second…
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Three to read on policing in schools
The past week’s episode of the podcast Have You Heard with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider looks at how police entered the schools in LA, Chicago, and Boston. If like…
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What we don’t talk about in Massachusetts
The big Boston Globe piece this weekend on two classes teaching lessons on racism and the district response–well worth reading, if you have not–followed the usual Massachusetts habit of…
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508 #366
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about school and childhood trauma in this time of pandemic with Audrey Smolkin, Director of…
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