1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (551+ words) Boston Public Schools fined its transportation vendor $184,000 for missed and late school buses in May. Transdev, which operates the city's school bus fleets and hires and trains drivers, has now been fined $400,500 to date for significantly late or no-show buses…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (117+ words) Ashley Maceli (VP of AI solutions at Eastern Bank), Jen Stave (executive director of Harvard Business School's AI institute), and Andrew Hogue (head of AI at Duolingo) speak with WBUR tech correspondent Scott Kirsner about how their companies are deploying…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (313+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Massachusetts to stop public colleges and universities from offering in-state tuition and financial aid to non-citizen students living in the state without authorization. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, targets Massachusetts’ "Tuition…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (598+ words) In a first for Massachusetts, two colleges will offer three-year bachelor’s degrees in the fall of 2027. The Board of Higher Education on Friday approved pilot programs at Merrimack College and Suffolk University despite concerns raised by educators who say the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (109+ words) Marty Baron, former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe; Paola Ramos, Telemundo contributor and host of The Moment; and media entrepreneur Javier Marin discuss how journalism has evolved over the last few decades and what challenges the…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (208+ words) Yale University is eliminating tuition and other costs for all new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year, joining a growing number of elite campuses that are slashing costs... Yale University is eliminating tuition and other costs for all…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (523+ words) On hot days, the classrooms at James Otis Elementary in East Boston could climb into the high 80s. Even popsicles handed out to keep students cool didn't help, melting instantly. The brick building is 121 years old. " It was never designed to…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (308+ words) The percentage of Boston Public School graduates who go directly to college remains below pre-pandemic levels and has stalled in recent years, according to a report released Tuesday from the Boston Private Industry Council. At the height of the pandemic…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1870+ words) This Circle Round episode originally was released on March 28, 2023. Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors. Ever heard the saying, “Good things come to those who wait”? Well, there’s another saying that…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (69+ words) WBUR The rise of artificial intelligence is changing the way students learn, and that has teachers rethinking how to teach critical thinking in the age of artificial intelligence. It's also threatening to upend the relationship between more schooling and economic…...