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July 9, 2013

Increased Demand for Postsecondary Education Projected as Economy Recovers

There will be 55 million job openings nationwide through 2020 as the country recovers from the 2007 recession, according to the most recent report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, “Recovery: Job growth and education requirements through […]

October 11, 2012

Entering Teaching Profession in Finland a Rigorous Process

This guest post by Emily Parks, Assistant Superintendent in Westwood Public Schools, is another in a series by members of the Massachusetts Education Delegation touring Finland. During our time in Finland, again and again, we have heard from Finnish educators and […]

March 6, 2012

Massachusetts’ Students Will Benefit From Review of Teacher Prep Programs

Imagine what would happen if The Boston Globe reported tomorrow that doctors who went to medical school were no better than those who didn’t? Or that there were some medical schools that regularly graduated more effective doctors than others, but […]

January 23, 2012

The Critical Role of Community Colleges in Workforce Development

The connection between education and economic development is one that employers have emphasized for many years. In fact, it is the reason MBAE exists – to provide every child the excellent education they need to prepare for the demanding jobs of an […]

December 17, 2010

Common Core Standards – Engaging Higher Education

One of the purposes of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, undertaken by that National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to create national standards for and assessments of student learning, is to strengthen the P-16 […]

October 18, 2010

Do we need more college grads?

One of the most important education reports of recent months is Projection of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, by Anthony Carnevale, Nicole Smith, and Jeff Strohl, from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workplace. The study argues that […]

September 17, 2010

Higher education – some news about where Massachusetts stands

The new edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual almanac came out recently, and I thought it would be interesting to look at how Massachusetts stacks up in some of the statistics assembled there. There is, as always, a […]

August 5, 2010

Universities? Yes, but …

Six Massachusetts state colleges are to become, by act of the Legislature, state universities. Is this a good idea? Twenty years ago, when my job involved oversight of the state’s higher education master plan, I would have said (and did […]