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Boston unveils plan for schools

School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson last night revealed the names of 14 Boston schools slated for massive overhauls, reinvention, or possible closing under a plan that would affect more than 6,000 students

Lagging Boston schools targeted for overhaul, possible closure

At least a dozen Boston schools - many in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, poverty, and teenage pregnancy

Tuition gift after highest price paid

The Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund has promised up to $40,000 in college grants to each of the 62 children who have lost parents in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Raise dropout age to 18

Increasing the age makes good sense in an era when few 16-year-olds can find productive employment. But the state should first figure out what to do with the extra students

Report: Harvard libraries must share

Even Harvard can’t have it all. Already cut from the budget of the world’s wealthiest university: hot breakfasts for most students and cookies during faculty meetings. Could library holdings be next?

Support swells for anti-bully legislation

After years of delays, the Legislature appears poised to crack down on bullying among schoolchildren,

Bill allowing more charter schools goes to Senate

A key legislative committee approved a bill yesterday that would allow more charter schools in the state’s most troubled districts while giving the state the power to take over failing schools.

Iraq latest crucible for Harvard mediation

The Boston area has become a global hub for teaching conflict resolution theory and practice for uses in law, diplomacy, and business in farflung places.

Community colleges are a good deal in hard economic times

As classes changed one recent weekday morning at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, the line of cars leaving the campus stretched more than a mile back from the lights on Route 27.

Credit card firms hurry to raise rates

Credit card companies are rushing to increase interest rates to historic highs of more than 30 percent, cut credit limits, and add new fees, even for customers who pay their bills on time.