A high school yearbook is a keepsake. Like an Instagram filter, it’s meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia. As an object, it evokes affection…
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Belchertown School Chief to Retire
BELCHERTOWN — Belchertown Public Schools Superintendent Karol Coffin plans to retire from the district after this school year, effective June 30. Coffin submitted a letter of intent to retire on…
Leave no child’s school district behind
…debate. For citizens and their legislative representatives to vote on the expansion of charter schooling we need to understand the true costs and benefits of charter schools and traditional public…
Easthampton Students Dig Into Pepin School History
…brand new building, Mountain View School, the following fall. They wanted to record important school and town history before the buildings were abandoned and the sounds of children playing at…
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
…building,” Pitrat said. Instead of reading poems aloud to others, students are posting poems on branches — called “poet trees” — stuck in the ground in front of the school….
Orange pushing ahead for more state school aid
…schools and schools with a high percentage of special education students. Orange is both. Reinig has presented to the Selectboard her assessment that the town’s elementary schools are grossly underfunded,…
‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.
…being kidnapped or raped along the way. Once here, they’re expected to enroll in school. But many lack basic literacy skills and may not get much-needed language assistance. Schools aren’t…
Teaching disability history in schools is ‘long overdue,’ advocates say
…chose Angelou. “And so in my experience, when I was in elementary school, middle school and high school, I feel like for me — me and Maya Angelou had a…
Drawing attention: Author-illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka visits Norris Elementary School
SOUTHAMPTON — Fifth graders at Norris Elementary School were silent as they listened attentively to author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka recounting the very first picture book he made in third…
New Pioneer principal hopes to make school ‘model’ in western Mass.
…and because it teaches both middle and high school students. “I was really looking at this point in my career to find a middle or high school principalship,” she said….