Improving Early Childhood Education

Framing the Options and Imperatives for State Action Policy Brief

Across the nation, early childhood education and care has suffered from poorly organized service delivery systems, inadequate funding, and insufficient attention by the policymakers. The result is a complicated system read more

Topic(s): Education, Strong Communities, Research

Gaining Ground

Value-Added Analysis for Massachusetts

Jennifer Candon, S. Paul Reville and Pendred Noyce

The premise of standards-based reform in Massachusetts is that a statewide commitment to standards, teaching, assessment, and accountability will lead to greater learning opportunities, higher achievement, a narrowing of the read more

Topic(s): Education, Strong Communities

Getting the Job Done

Advancing the New Skills Agenda

John Schneider and Peter Kwass

Getting the Job Done: Advancing the New Skills Agenda draws from lessons learned through two years of MassINC’s New Skills for a New Economy Campaign and lays out critical reforms read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy

The State of the American Dream in New Hampshire

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy and Ishwar Khatiwada

This research report uses data from the 2000 and 1990 Censuses to track developments in median income for New Hampshire families over the past two decades. Among its key findings read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Strong Communities, Economic Development, Research

MASS Migration

Adam Friedman

Through a detailed analysis of IRS migration data and Census 2000, we offer the definitive look at who has been moving in and out of Massachusetts during the last dozen read more

Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Strong Communities, Economic Development, Research

Head of the Class

Characteristics of Higher Performing Urban High Schools in Massachusetts

Jennifer Candon, Maxine Minkoff and S. Paul Reville

With few exceptions, urban high schools that serve high proportions of low-income and minority youth are failing to meet the academic needs of their students, according to a new study read more

Topic(s): Education, Strong Communities

The State of the American Dream in Massachusetts, 2002

Andy Sum, Nathan Pond, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Neeta Fogg, Abilasha Rao, Ishwar Khatiwada, Sheila Palma, Paul Harrington, Alex Plotkin, Jacqui Motroni and Gursel Aliyev

The new research finds that the path to economic success for Massachusetts families and workers is narrow and unforgiving, and those who stumble pay dearly. The report argues that the read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, Economic Development, New Skills for a New Economy, Research

From Cell to Street

A Plan to Supervise Inmates After Release

Anne Morrison Piehl

This report begins and ends with a concern for the public safety of hardworking, law-abiding citizens of the Commonwealth. Our citizens deserve safe neighborhoods where their children can play on read more

Topic(s): Criminal Justice, Strong Communities

New Skills for a New Economy

Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity

Andy Sum, Mykhaylo Trub'skyy, Sheila Palma, John Comings, Johan Uvin, W. Neal Fogg, Maricel Santos and Lisa Soricone

According to this new groundbreaking report from MassINC, more than a third (1.1 million) of Massachusetts’s 3.2 million workers are ill equipped to meet the demands of the state’s rapidly read more

Topic(s): Education, Jobs and Economic Security, New Skills for a New Economy, Research

Opportunity Knocks

Training the Commonwealth's Workers for the New Economy

Ralph Whitehead, John D. Donahue and Lisa M. Lynch

With the recent passage of the Workforce Investment Act in Washington, states have more freedom than ever before to set their own objectives in job training policy and pursue creative read more