Massachusetts Early College Initiative Launch

Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 8:00 AM

The UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston

Featuring keynote address from Governor Charlie Baker

Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, and Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Please join the state of Massachusetts, the Rennie Center, Jobs for the Future, MassINC, and the Massachusetts Business Roundtable for the launch of the Massachusetts Early College Initiative. This initiative will support the expansion of high-quality early college programs, which allow Massachusetts high school students to enroll in college courses. We hope you will join state education leaders and early college pioneers to learn about this new policy initiative.

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Rethinking Grading

March 28, 2024

Schools have assessed student learning and growth with essentially the same grading system for more than a century. Since this system was created, the field has learned so much more about the way students learn, the systemic inequities embedded in the design of traditional grading and assessment, and what type of learning leads to success in life. Grading should be aligned with what we know about the learning process, child and adolescent development, and the demands of career, college, and community life. But traditional grading is so deeply ingrained in our culture, that making changes to this system can seem like an insurmountable task. That’s why we partnered with DESE and reDesign to support five unique high schools as they interrogate their traditional grading practices and make shifts toward new systems that better measure student learning and growth.