Max Larkin is an Education Reporter at WBUR. He focuses on topics related to education, national security, and literature, with a particular interest in the intersections of these areas as they pertain to Massachusetts and current events such as the Coronavirus and Supreme Court decisions. Max's work has been featured in New England Public Media and WBUR.
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By: Max Larkin
But members of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union said their strike highlights particular frustrations. They say contract negotiations have moved at a glacial pace, all while the costs of rent, food and child care near campus rise.
By: Max Larkin
The end of the ESSER program, along with large and costly district priorities, make this an uncommonly complicated and painful budget. The Boston School Committee voted 5-2 Wednesday evening to advance the budget.
On Monday, tens of thousands are expected to travel across northern New England to see the solar eclipse along its path of totality.
It's also a way of marking time. Twenty years after the 2004 Sox snapped an 86-year championship drought, the team and its fans were commemorating that improbable win at the start of a less promising season.
For the second time in two years, Boston will rename one of its public schools in tribute to a legendary local activist.
By: Max Larkin
Northeastern University hosted a high-profile retirement party Thursday, as former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis stepped down after 29 years of teaching politics and policy at the school.
By: Suevon Lee, Max Larkin, Carrie Jung
Hundreds of students converged Wednesday in the yard, which had been closed off to the public for days. As more students filtered into Harvard Yard, protesters put up about a dozen tents in front of the statute of John Harvard. Campus police stood by, but did not intervene.
Tensions ran high on MIT's campus Friday as a pro-Palestinian encampment erected nearly two weeks ago was met with counterprotest across Mass. Ave.
By the middle of the 20th century, Boston Public Schools used a practical, intuitive — and inequitable — system to place students into schools.
By many measures, the Eliot K-8 Innovation School is a notable bright spot for Boston Public Schools. Its students routinely — often dramatically — beat the state average on MCAS scores.
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