Cambridge high school’s approach to attendance and relationship-building leaves students adrift
Working with disengaged kids is about relationships, but attendance policies allow for disengagement without prioritizing connections that might turn it around.
Somerville postponing hard decision on schools will make a bad situation for families even worse
Leaving children and educators in inadequate swing space for more time than necessary, with no apparent solution for the next building failure, should not be an option.
Attend meetings in Somerville from March 14-21 about Somernova benefits and historical homes
Public meetings this week look at potential community benefits from development at Somernova and a Historic Preservation judgment of three homes on Winter Hill and Spring Hill dating back to 1900 and 1920 and facing demolition.
Letter illustrates a sense of fear and conflict permeating Graham & Parks over principal
School council members who don’t want to be identified or contacted at personal email addresses. Parents who fear retaliation at an elementary school. An underway investigation into a principal and Open Meeting Law complaints. Welcome to Graham & Parks.
Families housed in East Cambridge’s state shelter are finally getting daytime access, Connolly says
Limited overnight hours had caused problems for residents of the overflow shelter at the Registry building, particularly families with kids newly enrolled in Cambridge schools, whose children could not go to the shelter after school.
Meet the Cambridge Math Circle’s Nataliya Yufa, who folds in her experiences from Kyiv and MIT
Nataliya Yufa’s experiences growing up in an oppressed Ukraine and dazzling but economically out of reach New York shaped her work as a founder and leader of the nonprofit Cambridge Math Circle, which aims to widen access to the sciences.
State policy limits East Cambridge shelter hours, putting residents in the cold for partial solutions
City officials and legislators have been trying unsuccessfully for weeks to persuade the state to keep Cambridge’s overflow temporary shelter for migrant families open around the clock instead of closing during daytime hours.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from maple syrup and rap to academic surrender
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Domo Genesis and Sofiane Pamart perform, we boil down maple sap, juggle, sing opera about influencers, talk the “American Prometheus” and AI invades and Harvard explores “Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World.”
High school is addressing post-Covid fight surge; Capuano report shows the joyful educating of tots
Fights break out at Somerville High School roughly once every two weeks, School Committee members heard, but a look at the Capuano Early Childhood Education Center showed a more delightful side of education.
Black trailblazers who sprang from Cambridge and became award winners on and off the field
In a final installment of Black Cambridge trailblazers for 2024, meet men who excelled as athletes and went on to work with youth and in expanding college multiculturalism and as an award-winning producer and director in documentary television.
