Check out SBLive's custom rankings formula for every division and classification of Massachusetts high school football ahead of this week's action.

The program is available to Massachusetts residents from households with an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or less. All four undergraduate campuses in the University of Massachusetts system are launching a free tuition program for Massachusetts residents from households with an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or less. The financial...

Massachusetts, long the darling of American education, is about to shut down a major engine of its success. Ballot Question 2 asks voters to end the requirement that students pass a fairly low bar on the state’s 10th grade test to receive a diploma. Sadly, Question 2 will probably pass.  Its advocates stoke fears about […]

The MIAA has released the state tournament brackets based on thefinal power ratings for field hockey. Here are the seedings and schedule for the Central Mass. teams as they chase a state championship (will be updated as game dates, times are released by the schools). More: Who leads the way? Check out...

With the eighth week of high school football in the books, Rich Garven takes a look at some of the top performances. Congratulations to David Prouty's Owen Granger for taking the top spot in last week's poll, garnering 1,129 votes (39.67 percent) to edge Clinton's Tateum Cassella (811 votes) for the honor. ...

22News is diving into question 2, which asks whether Massachusetts should get rid of MCAS standardized testing as a high school graduation requirement.

A discussion was held to advance student learning and promote an education system that provides students with multiple opportunities to succeed.

It’s Halloween, but you may not have noticed, since Harvard is a pretty scary place year-round. Midterms lurk around every corner, and HUDS can often jumpscare with diversions from the online menu. But the scariest thing about Harvard might just be some of its buildings. To celebrate this, we’re rounding up some of the most frightening places you may have the misfortune to visit while you’re a student here.

It’s that time of year again: when the leaves turn golden, the air gets crisp, and the undergrads start getting… spooked. But not by ghosts or ghouls — oh no. At Harvard, the real horrors come in much more familiar, sinister forms. Leave Your Pset to the...

Before Massachusetts created the MCAS graduation requirement as part of its Education Reform Act of 1993, Latino students faced disproportionately lower graduation rates, college admissions, and pathways to careers with good salaries. Pre-MCAS, nearly a quarter of students didn’t cross the graduation stage. Half of those failing students came from...

(WJAR) — Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll is set to speak about free community college tuition in Massachusetts on Tuesday. The conversation is happening today at UMass Boston. This summer, Governor Maura Healy signed a budget that set aside more than $117 million for a free community college program across the state.

WORCESTER, Mass. — A Worcester professor received $750,000 in grants to add six machines to his biotechnology lab, enabling his research team to expand their capacity to perform experiments. The school held a ribbon cutting Wednesday to showcase the new technology. Clark University Professor Don Spratt's research helps inform...

Massachusetts ranks each public school and district. Our accountability system designates them as “school of recognition” or “meeting or exceeding targets” at the top, opposite “focused/targeted support” and “broad/comprehensive support.” The last carries the dreaded “chronically underperforming” tag. The labels...

Matthew E. Nekritz ’25, an Associate Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Cabot House and can legally drink in the United States. Something is seriously wrong with this school, and it has nothing to do with intellectual vitality. As the Harvard-Yale game approaches, the College is once...

Calvin D. Alexander, Jr. ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint Comparative Literature and Music concentrator in Adams House. When Harvard prohibited chalking on sidewalks, I couldn’t imagine a speech policy more absurd. Last week, the University managed to surprise me. Earlier this month, a group of...

Maya Shiloni ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Government and Economics in Mather House. At Harvard, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how many opportunities are available on a daily basis. Just take a look at this past week’s calendar: campus organizations have hosted events with world-famous comedian Iliza V. Shlesinger, former House Speaker Nancy P. Pelosi (D-Calif.), and former Republican Presidential candidate Nikki R. Hailey.

Question 2 would eliminate the state’s high school graduation requirement and not replace it with anything, making Massachusetts one of only two states with no statewide academic standard. The graduation requirement has been in place for more than 20 years, and it is our sole statewide graduation requirement (other...

Pro-Palestine students staged a march during a September meeting between Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine and University President Alan Garber. By Frank S. Zhou. University President Alan M. Garber ’76 said he will not direct the Harvard Management Company to review its investments for ties to human rights violations, rejecting a proposal that a group of pro-Palestine activists presented to administrators during a meeting last month.