IT’S BEEN HAPPENING almost every week, usually in one of the city’s disadvantaged neighborhoods. Another young man, and sometimes a boy still years from manhood, is shot and often loses his life on the streets of Boston. Recently a young mother was gunned down in Mattapan in front of her child. The death count is […]
Robert Lewis Jr.
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Making pods work for everyone
AS MANY STUDENTS struggle to keep up with schoolwork virtually, Julia Rios welcomed praise that two kindergarteners she is working with in a new community learning pod are thriving. Their parents and teachers from Blackstone Innovation School in Boston report that, unlike so many children trying to learn during the pandemic, these youngsters are keeping […]
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Black, Latino, and low-income kids counting on Legislature
TRAVELING THE STATE as members of the Governor’s Black and Latino Advisory Commissions, we meet with families whose children represent the persistent achievement gaps in Massachusetts schools. Their children are the two in three black, Latino, or low-income students not reading on grade-level by the end of third grade. Their children are the 72 percent […]