“My class can’t do grade level work. My students can’t multiply. I need to teach multiplication first,” said a middle school math teacher during a recent PD session. Math teachers face this challenge every day: students arrive in their classrooms with...
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The Math Crisis is Real. The Solution Starts in Middle School.
Your child gets into a great university. Soon after, the first placement test comes back, and they’ve been assigned to a class covering middle school math. This is not a hypothetical. One of the most talked about data points right now comes from a new...
Mass Insight Awarded $30,000 Grant from KeyBank to Support Hampden County Advanced Placement Program
The funding will enable Mass Insight to offer their AP STEM & English Program. September 4, 2025 –Springfield, MA– Mass Insight Education & Research has been awarded a $30,000 grant from KeyBank to support its Advanced Placement (AP) STEM & English Program...
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A new report by the Voices for Academic Equity Coalition, of which Mass Insight is a founding member, unpacks the status of the state’s MassCore curriculum, a recommended opt-in course of study for the state’s high school students. Massachusetts currently has just...
Executive Summary: Revisiting The Turnaround Challenge
Our report, Revisiting The Turnaround Challenge: Lessons From the Field to Advance Pandemic Recovery in Low-Performing Schools, takes a look back at the Zone model presented in our seminal 2007 report, The Turnaround Challenge, and uses three anonymous district case...
Revisiting The Turnaround Challenge: Lessons From the Field to Advance Pandemic Recovery in Low-Performing Schools
It has long been the case that the nation’s lowest performing schools serve our highest needs students — students who are systemically marginalized by virtue of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, language, and/or ability. But the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated...