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Salem superintendent shares how his schools went phone free

Salem Public Schools are entering their fourth year without student cell phones to reduce distractions and keep kids engaged. Superintendent Stevens Wright said the ban followed concerns that phones were pulling students away from learning after the pandemic.

The push to eliminate honors programs in schools

In an effort to reduce inequality in education outcomes, some school districts are removing honors classes or other programs for high achievers. Some students, parents and teachers say the push to "de-track" or "de-level" classrooms is limiting learning for everyone.

What students, teachers and parents think about banning phones in Mass. schools

How much these devices consume our attention, and particularly how they impact children's developing brains and social skills, has deeply troubled some health and education experts, parents and students.

Because of PCBs, some Vermont students will go back to school in tents

fter another round of testing revealed stubbornly high rates of PCBs—a class of toxic chemicals—at Vermont's North Country Union High, administrators are preparing to educate students in wedding tents this fall.

Mass. high schoolers to get a jump start on offshore wind job training

The state will need more than 30,000 new workers who can install heat pumps, prepare residential homes to charge electric vehicles, build offshore wind farms, and more to get there.

How a high-performing Boston K8 school desegregated—and resegregated

By many measures, the Eliot K-8 Innovation School is a notable bright spot for Boston Public Schools. Its students routinely—often dramatically—beat the average on state tests.

Mass. education secretary takes to airwaves with a message: make school attendance ‘a priority’

Patrick Tutwiler, the state’s education secretary, will make his television debut to deliver the message that “school is where kids belong.” It's part of a multilingual campaign by the state's K-12 education department, including billboards and ads on radio and public transit.