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Christopher Huffaker
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Data education reporter at the Boston Globe.
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Christopher Huffaker @huffakingit.bsky.social · 2d
In yesterday's Boston Globe Magazine: My story on the Southern Surge and the Northern Nosedive.
New England schools are failing — and ‘nobody seems to care’ - The Boston Globe
Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call.
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john hilliard @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social · Jun 19
Fifty years ago, the United States made a pledge: No child, no matter how complex their disability, would be deprived an education.

That pledge never came true.

via @bostonglobe.com
Autistic children denied schooling amid lack of federal funding
The federal government has never fully funded special education, leaving schools across the country ill-equipped to teach children with severe disabilities. Today the US government contributes a mere ...
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Yvonne Abraham @yabraham.bsky.social · Jun 23
This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social
As questions linger, family and school grieve for Boston 5-year-old killed in April bus crash - The Boston Globe
There have been few answers in the nearly two months since a Boston Public Schools bus struck and killed Lens Joseph on April 28.
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john hilliard @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social · Jun 25
It’s a place where staff notice when a student got caught in the rain walking to school and offer them dry socks, where students insist as part of a “week of joy” on helping organize their teachers’ offices, and where many students and families wish they could stay longer. @bostonglobe.com
BPS closes its last middle school, following national trend of consolidating campuses - The Boston Globe
Standalone campuses for grades 6-8 are becoming rarer across the country and Boston has undertaken a broad effort to shift students to schools for grades 7-12.
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john hilliard @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social · Apr 24
It’s a generation permanently scarred.

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com
‘The pandemic broke us’: Mass. superintendents see long road to recovery for students - The Boston Globe
Dozens of Massachusetts superintendents said it will be years before students catch up to pre-COVID levels.
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June @rittsq.bsky.social · Jul 2
We used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. But that was over 20 years ago. We still have Kevin Bacon, thank goodness.
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