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2 months ago | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
February 10, 2025 It’s a Monday at 9 a.m., and it’s safe to say that most boys in America are not rehearsing a German opera. But that’s exactly what’s happening at St. Paul’s Choir School in Cambridge. About 30 fidgety boys — some as young as 10 — flank music director Brandon Straub at the piano. They’re rehearsing Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt,” meaning “The Dead City,” as they prepare for a performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
January 24, 2025 Schools are wrestling with how to manage students and their cellphones — devices that can aid student learning or distract from it, and at their worst, provoke violence. Students have recorded video of fights breaking out at Brockton High School and lunchroom brawls in Revere, posting them on social media to gain popularity or antagonize an enemy.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
January 16, 2025 About one-third of Massachusetts K-12 parents are concerned with their child’s math progress in school this year, a new poll finds. Only about half said their child is doing well in mathematics, while one in three said their child is just “doing OK,” according to a survey of parents by the EdTrust and MassINC Polling Group .
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
November 05, 2024 Waiting for a Forest Hills train, Micah Levine said her election stress this year is high, “like an 8 or 9” on a scale of 10. To cope, she said she voted early and cut back on her news intake. “A lot of what I’m doing is just kind of trying to engage with hobbies that I liked, so that I can reset my brain a little bit,” she said.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday and 17-year-old Maura Barrada sits on an idling bus in her high school’s parking lot — nervous, sleepless and adrenalized. The big day is finally here: the regional Aerospace Robotics Competition in New Hampshire. Maura and her senior teammates at Brockton High School — Mya Evans, Lizberte Celestin and Amieya Cudjoe — have logged hundreds of hours together building and flying their drones since October, when the competition began.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday and 17-year-old Maura Barrada sits on an idling bus in her high school’s parking lot — nervous, sleepless and adrenalized. The big day is finally here: the regional Aerospace Robotics Competition in New Hampshire. Maura and her senior teammates at Brockton High School — Mya Evans, Lizberte Celestin and Amieya Cudjoe — have logged hundreds of hours together building and flying their drones since October, when the competition began.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
June 19, 2024 Citing slow enrollment and lingering effects of this spring’s student protests, Emerson College said Tuesday it will cut faculty and staff and limit hiring for next year. “We understand this is difficult news and will do our best to mitigate its impact on our core academic programs,” president Jay M. Bernhardt wrote in an internal email to faculty and staff.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
June 19, 2024 Citing slow enrollment and lingering effects of this spring’s student protests, Emerson College said Tuesday it will cut faculty and staff and limit hiring for next year. “We understand this is difficult news and will do our best to mitigate its impact on our core academic programs,” president Jay M. Bernhardt wrote in an internal email to faculty and staff.
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May 21, 2024 | 
wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse
The Concord Select Board ramped up pressure on elected School Committee members this week to reconsider renaming the Concord Middle School for Ellen Garrison, a local Black woman and Civil War era abolitionist. The Select Board voted to put the question on a June 25 town-wide ballot, even though the School Committee voted in February against naming the school for Garrison.
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May 15, 2024 | 
baystatebanner.com | Meg Woolhouse |Adam Reilly
Concord Town Meeting members earlier this month overwhelmingly voted in favor of renaming the middle school after local educator and Civil War era abolitionist Ellen Garrison, a Black woman. It would be the first building named for a Black person in the majority-white town, but the school committee rejected the idea in February, with members arguing that calling it the “Concord Middle School” would be more unifying.
