Education

Amy Bisson watched all 25 minutes of last night’s Lowell School Committee meeting, the first of the new session, and shared her notes from the meeting and her excellent analysis of the issues discussed on her website. Please check it out.

Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the benefits of having two high schools in Lowell: I was emailing my friend Cliff Krieger who commented that he was one of the minority who wanted two high schools.  I thought about it, and was spurred on by a passing remark from a…

As a graduate of St. Margaret’s School (class of 1972), I took particular interest in the news of the merger of St. Margaret’s and Lowell Catholic High School to form a pre-K through grade 12 school beginning next fall. Here is the press release that delivered that announcement: Lowell Catholic…

By Jim Peters The title is taken from Paul Tsongas’ campaign booklet, “A Call to Economic Arms,” which was written in 1991 for the 1992 election for the Presidency of the United States.  In the book, Paul did something that no one has done as well since, he wrote out…

Jim Peters continues his series of posts on the history of education in Lowell: I have often written that little changes in the targets of proficiency and curricular adaptation.  The courses taught in the 1860’s, if you have been reading my blog, were virtually the same as those offered today. …

Amy Bisson watched last night’s Lowell School Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. Here full report is now online.

Jim Peters shares another essay in his series on the history of education in Lowell:    By the late 1860’s, Lowell had a large part of its population in school.  People signed up for night courses in the hundreds and for day courses in the thousands.  This was a marvelous…

Amy Bisson watched Wednesday night’s Lowell School Committee meeting and posted a full report on her website.  The highlights of what she described as a “packed agenda” included: A discussion on the number of children who live outside of Lowell but attend the Lowell public schools because a parent is…

Amy Bisson has taken on the task of watching Lowell School Committee meetings and reporting on their highlights complete with her own commentary and supplemental material. Please check out her post on last night’s meeting.