As part of STEM week, Massachusetts is promoting computer science (CS) education. Since our youth will never know a life without computers, we must teach them the skills and knowledge to understand the technology we use today so that they may go on to create the technology we will use tomorrow. We in the United…
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The Massachusetts Board of Education approved in June what may seem to some a small change to the state’s Next-Generation District and School Accountability System. The amended accountability language places “an increased focus on raising the performance of each school’s lowest performing students.” This represents a shift in how state results are reported and, more…
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With AP week just around the corner, students, teachers, and parents are gearing up for the exams they’ve been preparing for since the start of the school year last fall. By this point, they’ve worked hard, harder than they’ve had to for most high school classes, to gain a mastery of the content and skills…
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As public schools wrestle with an array of top-down mandates, there’s growing momentum for different approaches for school improvement — a push toward collective responsibility among a wide swath of stakeholders committed to student success. It’s an approach designed to engage parents, teachers, and various community nonprofit partners and businesses to build bonds for better…
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Massachusetts takes pride in being first in the country in many areas, especially the percentage of college grads in its workforce. But we can’t keep our lead unless we continue to invest in preparing high school students from all demographic backgrounds for college. That’s why last week’s news that Massachusetts again led the nation in…
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On January 11, 2018, teams from the five Gateway City school districts participating in the Gateway to College Success (GCS) Network, for which Mass Insight Education serves as the hub, gathered in Marlborough to review the progress to date and plan their next steps. The Cross-District Convening included leadership and instructional teams from Fitchburg, Holyoke,…
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By Dr. Susan F. Lusi Is school autonomy a necessary precondition to school improvement, or something that should be earned by virtue of a school meeting some type of performance threshold? When I was superintendent of schools serving a low-performing district, I didn’t find this either/or dichotomy very helpful. I thought of autonomy as a…
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MIE is proud to be partnering with Fitchburg High School for our 6th year in our Advanced Placement Success Sustainment Program! Here are some facts about FHS: Principal: Jeremy Roche District Superintendent: André Ravenelle Students at Fitchburg have the opportunity to use their high school AP courses for full credit at Mount Wachusett Community College.…
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Executive Director, Interim Headmaster: Kevin McCaskill District Superintendent: Tommy Chang Madison Park is our only Cohort 10 school in the Boston Public School District and is one of 15 BPS high schools partnering with MIE Madison Park is the only technical vocational high school in the city of Boston The high school was designed by…
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MIE is proud to welcome The Springfield Renaissance School to our Core program as of this fall. Here’s some background on Renaissance: Principal: Arria Coburn District Superintendent: Daniel Warwick Cohort 10: Springfield Renaissance is in its first year as a partner school of MIE Springfield Renaissance is our smallest school in Cohort 10, with just…
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Results for the newly designed MCAS – or New Generation MCAS– were released last week for Grades 3-8, showing an overall decline in scores. As the Boston Globe reported, some results were “eye-popping,” including the scores for Grade 8 English, where only 49 percent either met or exceeded expectations. On the previous test, 79 percent…
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This is Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School’s first year as an MIE partner school! Here are some facts about Diman: Principal: Elvio Ferreira District Superintendent: Thomas Aubin Diman serves the most communities of any of our Cohort 10 schools, with students from Fall River, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport As a vocational technical school, in…
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