Christopher Huffaker

@huffakingit.bsky.social

Data education reporter at the Boston Globe.

It’s a place where staff notice when a student got caught in the rain walking to school and offer them dry socks, where students insist as part of a “week of joy” on helping organize their teachers’ offices, and where many students and families wish they could stay longer. @bostonglobe.com

BPS closes its last middle school, following national trend of consolidating campuses - The Boston Globe

Standalone campuses for grades 6-8 are becoming rarer across the country and Boston has undertaken a broad effort to shift students to schools for grades 7-12.

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It’s a generation permanently scarred. Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com

‘The pandemic broke us’: Mass. superintendents see long road to recovery for students - The Boston Globe

Dozens of Massachusetts superintendents said it will be years before students catch up to pre-COVID levels.

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We used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. But that was over 20 years ago. We still have Kevin Bacon, thank goodness.