Program will estimate costs needed for Common Start legislation (H. 605 / P. 362) A UMass Boston-based interdisciplinary team of researchers has launched a new research project that will build a cost simulator to inform policy recommendations around universal child care. The simulator will model the amount of funding required by the Common Start legislation […]
Research shows that over a third of children and adolescents over the age of 18 meet the criteria for a psychiatric disorder. However, only a small percentage of students with mental health problems receive the necessary special educational offers – not least because of the lack of qualified specialists. Recognizing the urgent need for more […]
BOSTON (CBS) – The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is holding a special session Tuesday morning where they will decide whether to give State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley authority to institute a universal school mask mandate. The mandate would apply to all K-12 public schools, as well as all teachers and staff. The mandate […]
Thanks to Alison Chapman of Massachusetts for posting this opinion piece that ran on the Boston Globe. It’s surprising they did it, but I learned a saying decades ago, “Don’t punish progress,” and this opinion piece is important information that could help thousands of families whose children are excluded from school. ### OPINION Education improves […]
By Anne Dachel In 2007 I wrote a piece calledAutism: An epidemic of relatively recent origin It was all about the explosion of autism from a relatively rare condition to one in 150 (2007). One of my sources for this story was a 2007 piece from the Boston Globe, with Rise in Autism, Programs Tense. […]
By Anne Dachel In 2007 I wrote a piece calledAutism: An epidemic of relatively recent origin It was all about the explosion of autism from a relatively rare condition to one in 150 (2007). One of my sources for this story was a 2007 piece from the Boston Globe, with Rise in Autism, Programs Tense. […]
Thanks to Alison Chapman of Massachusetts for posting this opinion piece that ran on the Boston Globe. It’s surprising they did it, but I learned a saying decades ago, “Don’t punish progress,” and this opinion piece is important information that could help thousands of families whose children are excluded from school. ### OPINION Education improves […]
