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Globe Magazine | The Education Issue

Massachusetts schools are among the best. Except for financial literacy.

In one of the most expensive states in the country, we owe our schoolkids lessons about money.

Latest NH Education Headlines

Bedford, N.H., school officials investigate reports that students were secretly photographed, put on trading cards

An online petition is calling for those responsible to be expelled.

Buddy Teevens, gridiron innovator and iconic Dartmouth football coach, dies at 66 after bicycle accident

He won five Ivy League championships with the Big Green but more importantly was responsible for advances in player safety.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Dartmouth College basketball players file petition seeking to be represented by union

Men’s basketball players at Dartmouth College have become the latest college athletes to attempt to unionize.

PragerU course approved for high school credit in New Hampshire
The controversial decision means students will have the option to complete the free online financial literacy lessons through the state’s Learn Everywhere program.

NH Education
PragerU isn’t subject to law that defines ‘university,’ says N.H. attorney general
The State Board of Education is expected to resume its review this week of a controversial proposal to grant academic credit for one PragerU course

NH NEWSN.H. high school cheerleading program shut down due to alleged ‘harassment, and discrimination’ culture
Londonderry school officials are investigating the allegations, which involve students, parents, and coaching staff, the superintendent told families in a letter.

As Republicans compete in New Hampshire, ‘parental rights’ come to the fore
Parental rights — a term used as shorthand largely by conservative groups that oppose how public schools approach race, sexuality, and gender identity — is the latest culture war being waged in New Hampshire and elsewhere.

More New Hampshire Education Headlines

CARINE HAJJAR

Why Vivek Ramaswamy is catching on in New Hampshire and beyond

Can he move away from Trump’s politics of retribution without moving away from Trump voters?

IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

America needs more politicians like John Gilbert Winant

The three-term Republican governor of NH, FDR appointee, and ambassador to the UK put country ahead of party and was the soul of integrity. Let’s hope his kind hasn’t been consigned to history.

JEFF JACOBY

Ayotte isn’t wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts

There really are deep-rooted differences between the two states.

JEFF JACOBY

As capital punishment fades, progressives take aim at a new target

The long campaign to end executions will be replaced by a campaign to end life sentences without parole.

COMMENTARY | Carolyn Dever and Olivia Gentile

Help Wanted in N.H.: Journalism without sexism

A local columnist lauded Dartmouth’s 19th president for his accomplishments, but when writing about the school’s first female president he focused on housework — and accused her of shirking it, another journalist and the school’s former provost note.

RI HEALTH

One R.I. man’s battle with Stage 4 colon cancer: ‘You’re going to die no matter what. So fight this thing and beat it.’

Five years ago, Ward Thrasher was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Clinical trials and advanced care accessible to him in Rhode Island have kept him alive and his quality of life high.

LETTERS

Ayotte is right about one thing

Please, someone save me from all this freedom!

SCOT LEHIGH

Both parties have conspiracy theory candidates, but it’s only a primary advantage for Donald Trump

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unhinged views don’t play the same way.