…10 students are proficient in reading and math. That may be explained by the fact that 87 percent of the students are poor and one in five have a diagnosed…
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Warwick Community School Improv Club puts creativity to test with annual performance
…Falls. It was the third year the club has appeared following the Senior Meal. The club is a combination of new third-graders and older students who have participated in Improv…
State education formula out of whack, Commission: Health insurance, special ed underfunded
…underestimates the cost of educating the state’s students by at least $1 billion per year. “Districts today are really laboring under a formula and laboring under assumptions that are incorrect,…
Chris Appy
Chris Appy is a Professor in History at UMass Amherst. He is the author of three books about the American War in Vietnam: American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our…
Massachusetts Senate plans to craft charter school reform bill as ballot question looms
…schools, because after all, the whole point is that every child in Massachusetts should get a quality education,” Rosenberg said. “And so charter schools is only one group of students.”…
Safire DeJong Ed.D.
…UMass Amherst. Her research focuses on young people’s experiences with status and power in schools and communities. At CES, Safire works with a team of talented and experienced co-facilitators (the…
Dee McWilliams
…experience in early literacy development, Dee has been a classroom teacher, mentor teacher and literacy coach. She earned a B.S. and M. Ed. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.…
Lexi Polokoff, MPPA
Lexi Polokoff (she/her/hers) has her Masters in Public Policy and Administration from UMass Amherst. She served as an AmeriCorps Volunteer with DIAL/SELF where she worked full time at North Star:…
Mariah Lapiroff M.A.T., Ed.S.
…at elementary and university levels. She holds an M.A.T. in Latin & Classical Humanities and an Ed.S. in Social Justice Education from UMass Amherst. She facilitates sessions on the topics…
9th Annual Safe and Healthy Schools Summit: Supporting Schools in Seeking Racial Healing in Polarizing Times
…and Coach. Other presenters: Amherst-based Positivity Pod, featuring social justice educators Pat Romney, Paul H. Wiley, Angelica Castro, Kena Acuña, Molly Keehn; Collaborative for Educational Services Joy and Justice Team…