SPRINGFIELD —Nine-year-old Ery Perez Gutierrez focused last summer on sharpening his academic skills at Boland Elementary School, under a program that provides additional education to the children of migrant farm and fishery workers. The jobs, which require families to move across the state and country due to seasonal employment, can take a toll on their children’s education — a challenge the program aims to address. This summer, however, Ery, a US-born citizen whose Guatemalan mother previously worked in tobacco fields across three states, won’t get the chance to learn science lessons or...
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Oct
2017
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North Berkshire Academy prepares for success in the Berkshires
North Adams, MA -- Deciding on a perfect site for the new special education public day school at the Armory Building in North Adams was only the beginning. North Berkshire Academy Director Jodi Drury is now immersed in permits and applications, furniture and...
Oct
2017
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Afterschool programs work Let’s fund services with huge dividends for children and families
Each year, thousands of working Massachusetts families rely on afterschool programs to provide a safe, supervised haven for their children. But there are thousands more children sitting on wait lists for affordable, quality programs. Parents know afterschool...
Sep
2017
21
Editorial: Local educators join national effort to teach critical news literacy skills
In an age where “information” is available at dizzying speeds and in seemingly endless quantities, it is essential to teach consumers the skills they need to discern what is fair, accurate and reliable. Thankfully, local educators are joining their colleagues...
Sep
2017
21
Interim GHS principal steps into permanent post
GREENFIELD — As she left college, Karin Patenaude wondered what to do with an English degree. She would try the field of law, working as a paralegal. Unfulfilled, she went back to school to get a degree so that she could become a teacher. Teaching high school...
Sep
2017
21
Franklin Tech’s frogs along the river
GREENFIELD — Back around March, a Franklin Technical School shop teacher was approached about an idea regarding a frog and a few words to accompany it. Greenfield Rights of Nature wanted to create signs to remind people to pick up after themselves and to care for...
Sep
2017
20
Gateway to host educational technology conference
HUNTINGTON — Gateway Regional will host a technology conference for staff in western Massachusetts schools Thursday, Sept. 28. Five educational technology vendors were selected to showcase products at the conference. Trinity 3 Technology is a major sponsor of this...
Sep
2017
20
Smith Academy launches sign language class
HATFIELD — Anyone passing by Brittainy Simpson’s classroom last Friday might have mistakenly thought they were witnessing a small miracle: a class of high school students making not a peep, a kind of silence unheard of during the very last period on the last day of...
Sep
2017
15
It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Apps Your Children Are Using?
Alexander Graham Bell didn’t expect his telephone to be widely used for prank calls. And Steve Jobs was chary of children using his iThings. But social media apps are appendages for tweens and teens. It’s one way they earn social currency. Below, a guide to what...
Sep
2017
15
G-M schools have higher enrollment
TURNERS FALLS — The Gill-Montague Regional School District has an increase in enrollment for the 2017-2018 school year. Superintendent Michael Sullivan said they are at 984 students total, which is an increase of 33 from last spring’s 2016-2017 enrollment. Last...
Sep
2017
13
Senate panel rejects Trump’s proposed federal education cuts
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a spending bill that rejects President Trump’s proposed cuts to education funding for fiscal year 2018 and, for now at least, derails the administration’s goal of directing federal dollars...
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