On Thursday, November 15, the Hampshire Gazette published a guest editorial by Richard Alcorn, the executive director of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School (PVCICS). PVCICS has applied to…
Search Results
Member District Superintendents
…previous year. Home E Search query for: blog licensure 2015 12 new word study workshop ( Page 16 ) Collaborative for Educational Services Member Districts The Superintendents of CES…
Whately teacher selected for Global Learning Fellowship
…and attend a two-day professional development workshop. A highlight of the fellowship is “a nine-day international field study next summer, bringing the full cohort together with experts in global learning.”…
America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond – Teaching Human Rights Today
…to today. Study and discuss the impact of fascist thought and action on human rights through that decade of war, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the post-WWII…
Postsecondary Educational Opportunities for Youth Committed to DYS
…youth committed to DYS – 98 students – took postsecondary courses. Thanks to new programming, many DYS students can now consider matriculating into college programs before they transition back to…
Becoming money smart: At Fort River Elementary in Amherst, 5th-graders learn about finances by working and paying rent through mock program
…of high school students can be considered financially literate, according to a 2015 Massachusetts report on financial literacy, and that Massachusetts is one of 12 states across the country that…
As Massachusetts charter schools enroll more students with disabilities, who exactly are they serving?
…have disabilities, the percentage of disabled students at charter schools has grown from 12 percent in 2010-2011 to 14 percent in 2014-2015. But an analysis by The Republican of data…
Graduation Rates Up, Dropouts Down in Massachusetts High Schools
Massachusetts four-year high school graduation rates climbed for the ninth year in a row in 2015 with some of the largest gains recorded by some minority groups and students from…
Hawlemont sees new principal, new programs
…and five piglets before ending the day. “The staff take turns, when school’s out,” explains Samantha Rutz, just six days into her new job as principal. Although her job began…
White Brook Middle School celebrates arrival of new recess equipment, breakfast kiosk with Pat Patriot
…on Wednesday. The New England Patriots mascot joined school leaders and representatives from the New England Food and Dairy Council in presenting students with new recess equipment and a breakfast…