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June 8, 2016 By NATE BOROYAN

UNACCOMMODATING: A BLS STORY

The Hub’s most elite high school has been under growing scrutiny for its apparent neglect to properly address a culture of racial intolerance. While federal investigators probe that issue, this story of a former Boston Latin School student with special needs raises additional points of concern about another minority population at BLS. It was near the end […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: #BlackAtBLS, BLS, Boston Latin School, Boston Public Schools, BPS, education, elite schools, exam schools, learning disabilities, Lynne Mooney Teta

March 29, 2016 By JASON PRAMAS

WHY ARE SO FEW ‘HIGH SCHOOL QUIZ SHOW’ CONTESTANTS BLACK?

Image via High School Quiz Show / YouTube March 29, 2106 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Structural racism is the problem … now what’s the solution? WGBH’s “High School Quiz Show” is great. So great that adults like me watch it on purpose regularly. And that’s why I’ve noticed something problematic about the show over the […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns, Education Tagged With: culture, democracy, education, Jason Pramas, justice, media, politics, racism, WGBH

March 10, 2016 By JASON PRAMAS

BPS STUDENTS TAKE TO THE STREETS, MAYOR WALSH FEELING THE HEAT

Photos by Chris Faraone March 10, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS With their schools facing up to a $50 million deficit next year, over 2,000 Boston Public School students from all over the city marched on the Massachusetts State House and Boston City Hall this week to demand that BPS be properly funded going forward. […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns, Education Tagged With: Activism, BPS, Charter School, democracy, education, Jason Pramas, politics, Student

December 29, 2015 By CHRIS FARAONE

THE BARBARISM OF CHARTERISM

New year, new theater in the war over corporate ed reform Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson was smiling. Not the ordinary cheery ear-to-ear look his constituents have come to expect from the ebullient official, but rather a modest show of relief dashed with giddiness because the side of Boston’s education battle he has come to […]

Filed Under: Education, Features, Reporting, Reports Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Boston Compact, BPS, Carlos Rojas-Alvarez, Charlie Baker, Charlie Pierce, Charter School, education, Esquire, Great Schools Massachusetts, James Peyser, Jobs With Justice, karyn polito, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, NewSchools Venture Fund, QUEST, Suffolk Superior Court, Tito Jackson, Walton Family Foundation

October 5, 2015 By JASON PRAMAS

UMASS BOSTON WILL ALSO BE USELESS UNDERWATER

Image by Kent Buckley October 5, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This week’s column is a codicil to last week’s column on the need for local policy wonks and politicians to stop proposing major public infrastructure projects in parts of Boston that are going to flood during the increasingly frequent global warming-driven super storms slated […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Boston, criticism, education, Environment, global warming, Jason Pramas, politics, US

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