Next week marks 50 years since the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., Robert Kennedy’s grandson, joined Jim Braude to discuss how the family is…
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The most beautiful Italian Renaissance painting in the United States, “The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin” by Fra Angelico, is on full-time view but hard to find. Since 1903,…
TeachThought’s Drew Perkins talks with Playworks President, Elizabeth Cushing, and Sara Shorey, Principal of Adams Elementary about using social-emotional learning to help kids navigate the world of play more productively. Playworks is the leading national nonprofit leveraging…
The research on play is clear: Play is singularly effective in contributing to our abilities to make decisions, work collaboratively, self-regulate and practice self-awareness. Jill Vialet, founder and CEO of…
Also joining the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Boston is Centro Presente, a community organization that advocates for TPS beneficiaries in Massachusetts. The suit was filed by…
When a North Atlantic right whale swims into a submerged net or rope, it panics and rolls. This makes everything worse, tangling the fishing gear in the animal’s mouth or…
As Congress and the Trump administration contemplate a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure, the question of how to utilize those dollars looms large. If the focus is just asphalt and…
For years, as standardized tests took on ever greater importance in Massachusetts public schools, recess seemed to pay the price, shrinking or even disappearing in some communities. But now, with…
‘It’s no longer about slapping a logo on a shirt,” says Victor Oliveira, director of retail at Gift at the Gardner, the shop at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. “People…
In one more sign that North Atlantic right whales are struggling, a new study finds sky-high levels of stress in animals that have been caught in fishing nets. Researchers determined…
