Naomi Martin

A tweet showing the assignment quickly went viral, drawing within hours more than 3,300 retweets, 36,000 likes, and hundreds of responses.

In four recent Zoom sessions held by the search committee, students and parents shared a wide range of characteristics they believe are crucial.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said the report will prompt district reforms, including greater oversight over autonomous pilot schools like Mission Hill to ensure the schools, which have greater freedom over curriculum and hiring, are following necessary rules.

Bilingual education can be a tough sell to many immigrant parents who believe their children should focus only on English.

After leaving the helm of Somerville’s schools last fall to lead BPS, former teacher Mary Skipper is confronting the challenge of her career: turning around a school system that fails thousands of children every year.

The missteps by BPS amounted to a “breach of policy, procedures, and public trust,” the report said.

The report ranked Mass. 35th for teaching new educators how to instruct students on phonics, vocabulary, and other core components of reading.

Parents, experts, and educators told — well, shouted, at — the Globe. It’s time, they said, for the state to dream big and organize a massive push to catch kids up.

After years of dismally low reading scores, the state’s largest school system is making a dramatic shift toward “structured literacy,” instruction that draws on a body of research.

It’s the experience of likely thousands of teenagers across Massachusetts each year, students who not only are failed by schools in early elementary years, but who are allowed to slide to the end of their public school experience without becoming competent readers.