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Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present: Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation has been released in paperback.

Author Joseph M. Cronin has taught at Harvard, Boston College and Boston University and was Interim Dean at the Lesley University Graduate School of Education.  Cronin also served as Massachusetts Secretary of Education and President of what is now Bentley University.  He chaired the board of the Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools in the 1980s and continued as overseer of the plan.  

Boston schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad prize for "Most Improved Urban School System."  This book will be of interest to those who plan to work in urban schools, former Boston school teachers and administrators, and to city leaders, foundations and advocates of school reform.  Available through Palgrave, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com or other bookstores.

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NEASC's economic impact studies featured in  The New England Journal of Higher Education, published by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE):

Show Me the Money!  Why Higher Ed Should Help K-12 Do Economic Impact Studies

Education by the Numbers: Why education is a smart investment in an uncertain economy