A deep and persistent minority achievement gap is one of the most urgent problems facing Boston Public Schools, as the city welcomes a school superintendent who oversaw Minnesota schools plagued by chronic poor academic performance.

Teachers are relatively risk-averse compared to other professionals, but the pension plans covering 90 percent of teachers are taking substantial risks on their behalf. In fact, that risk-taking behavior by teacher pension plans has the potential to harm individual teachers and the teaching profession writ large. 

This week, Bellwether’s Andrew J. Rotherham calls discussions about ESSA from our nation’s governors and ideas for progress on guns. But we want to hear about the broader crises affecting too many of our nation’s young people as well.

A Trump proposal to punish immigrants who send their U.S.-born children to Head Start is deeply troubling.