The Pursuit of Happiness

A Survey on the Quality of Life in Massachusetts

Larry Hugick and Jenny Armeni
The Pursuit of Happiness: A Survey on the Quality of Life in Massachusetts highlights data from a 1,001-person statewide poll conducted for MassINC by Princeton Survey Research Associates (margin of error: + or – 3%). Respondents were asked more than 60 questions related to their own and the state’s quality of life, their views on read more
Topic(s): Jobs and Economic Security, Strong Communities, Economic Development, Public Opinion, Research

Pathways to Graduation

Supporting All Students to Mastery A Retrospective Look at the Class of 2003

Jennifer Candon, Celine Coggins and S. Paul Reville
The aspirations of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act are ambitious, but clear — to provide every student with an opportunity to learn and achieve mastery at a high standard of academic proficiency. Since the legislation’s passage, considerable time, effort, and resources have been dedicated to achieving this lofty goal, and substantial progress has been read more
Topic(s): Education, Strong Communities, New Skills for a New Economy

Improving Early Childhood Education

Framing the Options and Imperatives for State Action Policy Brief

Celine Coggins and S. Paul Reville
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 plagued by competing interests that is in need of reform and alignment. The field’s capacity to meet the needs of children and families has been 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 achievement gap, and a more promising future for all of the Commonwealth’s students. And indeed, ten years after the passage of the 1993 Massachusetts Education 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 needed for the Massachusetts workforce development system. There is broad agreement that Massachusetts’s workforce development system needs repair to meet the challenges of the 21st 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 is that the typical New Hampshire family, which enjoyed above average real income growth over the 1980s, struggled to keep ahead of the increases in 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 released by the Center for Education Research and Policy at MassINC. Using a range of indicators, some of which include: attendance rates, drop-out rates, college 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 difficulty today in obtaining, or holding onto, a reasonably secure middle-class standard of living is the result of fundamental changes in the “recipe” for achieving 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 the streets, businesses can thrive, the elderly can walk without fear, and neighbors can congregate at night on their front porches. In recent years, much read more
Topic(s): Criminal Justice, Strong Communities
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