It was not physically possible for a single gunman at the Orlando nightclub shooting to have fired as many rounds in the time allotted as reported. Rumors and conjecture fly after every mass shooting, ...

Mitchell Chester, the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was pretty upbeat when we spoke earlier this week. “If we were a nation, we’d be in a league with the ...

Since the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993, schools in the state have focused on strengthening students comprehension of so-called STEM topics — science, technology, engineering and ...