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The New Look of Boston’s Higher Education Institutions

In a time of major upheaval, what does the future hold for higher learning in Boston? Five hometown college and university leaders peer into their crystal ball—and what they see might surprise you.


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Should Your Kid Be Taking Russian Math?

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Your Preschool Questions, Answered

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Whatever Happened to Universal Pre-K?


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Why Harvard University Is Failing at Everything

A crushing cancel culture, accusations of plagiarism, protests on campus, lawsuits, Congressional investigations, and big-dollar donors running for the door. Why the emperor by the Charles has no clothes.

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Are Massachusetts’ Teachers Unions Allowing Students to Fail?

They fight against charter schools, MCAS testing, and state oversight while seeking more taxpayer money than ever before. Meanwhile, public school students’ reading and math scores are worse than they have been in 20 years. Just a coincidence?

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The Best Public High Schools in Greater Boston, Ranked for 2023

We crunched the numbers to come up with our annual guide to the top-performing schools in the region. How does your child’s school stack up?

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The Interview: MIT President Sally Kornbluth

The incoming queen of Kendall Square talks Smoots, “cancel culture,” and getting more young girls into STEM.

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Varsity Jacket Blues

Letterman jackets used to be for winners and cool kids. In today’s high schools, they’re about as popular as leg warmers and big hair. What happened?

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The Interview: Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper

Now at the helm of a beleaguered BPS, new superintendent Mary Skipper is determined to make the grade.


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Best Schools 2020

Our exclusive ranking of the top districts in Greater Boston.

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Boston Latin’s Growing Pains

Twitter scandals, white privilege, and woke politics: How the city’s most prestigious high school landed on the front lines of a culture war.

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The Best Public High Schools in Greater Boston

Our annual guide to the top-performing schools in the region.

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The Case of the Vanishing Dorm Crew

After 70 years, Harvard University is flushing its oldest—and most controversial—student employment organization down the toilet. But that’s only the beginning of the story.

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Do Famous People Really Give the Best Commencement Speeches?

‘Tis the season for A-list lectern bloviation, and all the joy and yawning that comes with it.

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Massachusetts Had the Top Ranked High Schools in the Country in 2022

Statewide, we were at the top of the heap, according to U.S. News & World Report.

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Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex

No, it’s not 1950, but public school parents are once more at odds over what to teach kids when it comes to the birds and the bees. Here we go again….

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Mass. Still Has the Best Engineering Grad School in the Country

But the state slipped in a couple of the other major categories.

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Brenda Cassellius Will Walk Away from BPS with More than $300,000

It’s part of a settlement reached between Cassellius and the School Committee.

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The Survivor

As a high school freshman, Jamie Forbes was sexually abused by a male teacher at Milton Academy, the elite school that sits on the land his Brahmin family donated. Now he’s out for justice—and to change the culture at private schools in Boston and beyond for good.

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