The nearly 30-year tale of secalosides A and B began in 1997, when natural product chemists identified them as components of ...

Friends and family welcome home U.S. Sailors with Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 147, Strike Fighter Attack Squadron ...

High school students would take end-of-course tests designed, administered and scored by the state under new graduation requirements recommended by a state council and cheered by Gov. Maura Healey as ...

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An artificial intelligence error affected the Spring 2025 MCAS scores for students in 192 Massachusetts school districts. The glitch caused approximately 1,400 ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Boston College physics researchers Qiong Ma and Fazel Tafti a $1 million grant to study a new class of quantum materials with the potential to power ...

Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for achievement more than six years after the state passed new social studies ...

Though MCAS scores for the latest round of testing were "sobering" statewide, there were some local successes, including in Amherst. Credit: CREATIVE COMMONS Though a smaller percentage of ...

LOWELL — The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the 2025 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System results during a presentation Monday morning. Overall, Lowell Public ...

Of the 44 schools included in the accountability assessments, all but two made “significant” or “moderate” progress toward stated targets. Half of the city’s schools saw improvements in their “overall ...