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Laura Colarusso
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Editor, CommonWealth Beacon
Cambridge
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education, technology autism, movies politics, comics social commentary, computers pop culture,Science
Anything dull.
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By Laura Colarusso Verified| Flipboard@ 3 hours ago"I learned a powerful lesson that day about courage, tenacity, and class." Over on Quora, tons of teachers answered the question, "As a teacher, what is the harshest truth a student has ever taught you?" The responses are pretty informative, and they serve as a reminder that, even as we teach …
By Laura Colarusso Verified| Washington Monthly Verified In the 52 years since the enactment of Title IX—the federal law prohibiting discrimination in education on the basis of sex—women have made tremendous strides in closing educational gaps that once seemed insurmountable. Women now make up about 60 percent of college students in the United States and earn 56 percent of law school degrees. They also outnumber men in undergraduate communications programs by nearly two to one. In the humanities, graduate-level enrollments flew past parity decades ago.
By Laura Colarusso Verified| Flipboard@ 3 hours ago"I learned a powerful lesson that day about courage, tenacity, and class." Over on Quora, tons of teachers answered the question, "As a teacher, what is the harshest truth a student has ever taught you?" The responses are pretty informative, and they serve as a reminder that, even as we teach …
Company Info
CommonWealth Beacon
CommonWealth Beacon is the trusted source for in-depth news, analysis, and original reporting on policy, politics, and civic life in Massachusetts. We are nonprofit, non-partisan, and make our work available for free to all, with no paywall. CommonWealth Beacon's mission is to contribute to a more inclusive and vibrant civic culture that makes our government more responsive and effective by providing rigorous coverage of important issues affecting life in Massachusetts. CommonWealth Beacon is published by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, or MassINC, a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting economic inclusion and civic vitality through the provision of unbiased research and journalism and respectful civic dialogue. MassINC conducts policy related research, convenes conversations, conducts public opinion surveys through a for-profit polling subsidiary, and publishes CommonWealth Beacon.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
+1 617-742-6800
Founded: 1996