Education

The number of Black students starting at Harvard Law School this fall has hit a 60-year low. The drop in enrollment comes after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended race-based admissions. Attending Harvard Law is a major milestone for students. Graduates include some of the nation’s most prominent Black lawyers, including the Obamas, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and former...

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ latest survey shows the gap is growing between high-skilled and low-skilled readers in the U.S.

The gap between the top-skilled and the lowest-skilled is growing, according to a survey of adult skills.

Students will return to the classroom Wednesday in the Massachusetts communities of Beverly and Marblehead. The Marblehead School Committee said late Tuesday afternoon that it had reached a tentative deal with the Marblehead Education Association. The Beverly School Committee announced a tentative agreement later Tuesday evening. “Both the School Committee and the Association recognize the stress and hardship caused to...

Monday marks 11 days of no school for Beverly – which ties Newton as the longest teachers strike in the state since the 1990’s.

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As two North Shore teachers strikes drag on, the one in Beverly on Monday tied a recent one in Newton as the longest in modern Massachusetts history. The Beverly strike has stretched on for 11 days, and negotiations have become increasingly contentious as students there and in Marblehead missed another day of school while, in Gloucester, the North Shore third...

The Texas education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools.

Four Massachusetts institutions are waiving tuition for families with annual household incomes under a certain amount. Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the latest schools to announce the move, joining all four University of Massachusetts’ campuses and College of the Holy Cross. The institutions will offer free or half tuition for students whose families make less than...

Here are five things to know about former wrestling executive Linda McMahon.

Linda McMahon founded World Wrestling Entertainment with her husband, Vince, and she has twice ran for U.S. Senate. Here’s more to know.

Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.

Monday marks another day out of the classroom for students in three North Shore communities, as educators in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead return to the picket line in an ongoing strike. The teacher strikes entered their second school week amid ongoing negotiations, and schools will remain closed Tuesday. In Beverly, the teachers’ union there is expected to be in court...

A backlash to standardized tests has been fueled by complaints they take up too much classroom time and questions about how well they measure readiness for college or careers.

Preschoolers are getting suspended or expelled at a rate three times higher than K-12 students.

The University of Massachusetts is simplifying its message for prospective in-state students and their families: If you make under $75,000, you can come to any one of the system’s campuses for free. There’s been a surge in state funding for financial aid in recent years, especially since the passage of a surtax on high-earners in 2022 that has generated more...

Battle lines continue to form around a ballot question to change a key component of the education reform law that some say made Massachusetts the best educated state in the country, separating politicians who are used to standing on the same side of most issues, and simultaneously creating strange allies. The day after U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, declared...

An educator with experience advising the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) believes it’s time to sue the state agency if it doesn’t do more to reduce racial imbalances in public schools. “They still have an opportunity before someone files a lawsuit,” said Dr. Raul Fernandez, the former chair of DESE’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council (RAIC). “My great...

Massachusetts voters will decide on five ballot questions this election. Question 2 presents an issue that could impact students, parents and teachers in Massachusetts. If approved, it would eliminate the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement. A no vote would keep it as is. “I know how much harm that has done,” said Deb McCarthy, the vice president of…

Though she’s no longer teaching, Kimberlee Maniscalco’s thoughts often find their way back to her students.  “I loved them and taught them as if they were family to me. We were. I called them our class family,” she said.  The fond memories of her kindergarten class in Winthrop live on in the mementos and keepsakes she still holds on...

The learning loss that came about as a result of the pandemic and its shift towards remote schooling that began more than four years ago is still showing up in standardized test results, state officials said as they released the latest batch of MCAS scores. “The road back from the pandemic is not short,” Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler said during…