by tjohnston | Jul 17, 2015 | Local News
EASTHAMPTON, MA – Superintendent Nancy Follansbee has appointed four interim administrators for the city’s schools, including an interim principal for the high school. Easthampton High School assistant principal Kevin Burke will serve as interim principal in the...
by tjohnston | Jul 9, 2015 | State/National News
SPRINGFIELD, MA – College professors were pitted against public school educators and parents over the question of changing the state’s main standardized exam from the MCAS to the new PARCC test during a public hearing Tuesday. The state Board of Elementary...
by tjohnston | Jul 9, 2015 | State/National News
WASHINGTON, DC — Congress on Wednesday moved to substantially scale back the federal government’s role in education, particularly the use of high-stakes standardized testing to punish schools, in the first significant proposed revisions since the No Child Left Behind...
by tjohnston | Jul 8, 2015 | State/National News
President Obama signed an Executive Order expanding the United States Presidential Scholars program to establish a new category of outstanding scholars in career and technical education (CTE). The announcement of this new award category of CTE Presidential Scholars is...
by tjohnston | Jul 2, 2015 | State/National News
Although American millennials are the first generation of “digital natives”–that is, people who grew up with computers and the internet–they are not very tech savvy. That fact would probably come as a shock to most Americans–especially to...
