The Boston Globe: Learning to love school: A blueprint for student engagement
Posted on: January 30, 2024
Using innovative education techniques, a pilot program of Salem middle school students saw chronic absenteeism drop by more than 50 percent
By Gerald Chan and Steve Zrike
A new report from the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy describes the condition of education in Massachusetts and highlights the need for innovations to address chronic absenteeism, lagging academic growth, and other troubling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have hit historically marginalized groups especially hard.
The report underscores what many students and families already know: Even in a state with top-ranked public schools, school districts can do better. Schooling must be redesigned from the ground up.
