Budget Moves to Senate; House to Act on Bill to Improve Student Achievement May is always a busy month, but it is especially so this year as legislators work to complete the Massachusetts Budget for fiscal year 2015 and wrap […]
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has issued a call for volunteers to join Working Groups that will develop recommendations for subject matter knowledge required for educator licensure. This is a critically important endeavor with the potential to […]
In late March, Rick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote a column in Education Week with three questions for the two consortia of states that have developed assessments aligned to the Common Core State […]
MBAE congratulates and looks forward to working with Governor-Elect Charlie Baker and the newly elected and returning legislators who are taking on the responsibility to ensure our public schools educate every child for success. Reaching that goal, we believe, will require major […]
Each week, the Department of Higher Education issues a weekly digest of news clips that provides updates on what is going on at various campuses around the state. This week, the digest (subscribe at the DHE website link above) also […]
Laura Slover, CEO of PARCC, Inc., the nonprofit managing the assessment project for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) states, began her career as a high school English teacher. In a recent update, she wrote about […]
The Massachusetts Department of Higher Education and a dozen college and university presidents announced last week that they have “joined more than 200 college and university leaders from 30 states in a new coalition, Higher Ed for Higher Standards, to […]
The business community relies heavily on data for measuring and understanding its performance and opportunities. So, it is no surprise that MBAE has strongly supported the effective use of data to improve instruction and assess the performance of many aspects of our […]
On September 20, The Standard-Times published a strong endorsement of PARCC in an editorial “Mass. should adopt PARCC.” Citing conversations with local educators and administrators, the editorial says “As we hear more and more educators and parents give Common Core a chance, […]
The Boston Globe reports that new Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang “praised the PARCC exam” in an interview. Chang told the Globe that PARCC is “far more robust at assessing critical thinking for our kids’’ and that he “supports Common Core standards […]
In this issue: State education policy grows more important | MCAS 2.0 and a new resource for parents | Looking ahead As 2015 comes to a close, we want to thank you – our readers, supporters, partners and friends – […]
In this issue: MBAE Members in Action | News Worth Highlighting “In the first five years of the 2010 Challenge, we’ve learned that creating jobs is not the constraint; filling them is. Massachusetts companies cannot fill current open job requisitions […]