Christopher Huffaker
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Data education reporter at the Boston Globe.
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Christopher Huffaker
Linda K. Wertheimer
8 days ago
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m...
Great story by
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Massachusetts virtual schools keep growing, despite COVID — and longstanding — academic struggles - The Boston Globe
Statewide virtual schools have grown in enrollment by more than half since 2019.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/metro/virtual-schools-online-learning-massachusetts/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
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In yesterday's Boston Globe Magazine: My story on the Southern Surge and the Northern Nosedive.
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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.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/magazine/northern-nosedive-reading-math/?p1=StaffPage
about 1 month ago
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Christopher Huffaker
john hilliard
5 months ago
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
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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 ...
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/metro/special-education-funding/
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Christopher Huffaker
Yvonne Abraham
5 months ago
This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by
@iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social
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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.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/23/metro/bps-bus-crash-5-year-old-lens-joseph-killed/
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Christopher Huffaker
john hilliard
5 months ago
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.
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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.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/metro/frederick-middle-closure-bps/
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Christopher Huffaker
john hilliard
7 months ago
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.
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‘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.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/metro/mass-education-covid-pandemic-learning-loss/
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Christopher Huffaker
June
over 2 years ago
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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