Christopher Huffaker
@huffakingit.bsky.social
Data education reporter at the Boston Globe.
What's the worst grade you've ever gotten, and in what grade/subject?
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
What's the worst grade you've ever gotten, and in what grade/subject?
Great episode. I share your fond childhood memories of the O'Hare light tunnel.
I also had to share the stupid joke I do every time I'm on a moving walkway with someone: As I step off, I sniffle and pretend to get choked up, and say, "Wow, that walkway really was moving."
I also had to share the stupid joke I do every time I'm on a moving walkway with someone: As I step off, I sniffle and pretend to get choked up, and say, "Wow, that walkway really was moving."
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great episode. I share your fond childhood memories of the O'Hare light tunnel.
I also had to share the stupid joke I do every time I'm on a moving walkway with someone: As I step off, I sniffle and pretend to get choked up, and say, "Wow, that walkway really was moving."
I also had to share the stupid joke I do every time I'm on a moving walkway with someone: As I step off, I sniffle and pretend to get choked up, and say, "Wow, that walkway really was moving."
interesting Proof Points column on male teachers seemingly not making a difference in elementary school hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Do male teachers make a difference? Not as much as some think
A teacher's gender doesn’t matter for young boys, national study shows
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November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
interesting Proof Points column on male teachers seemingly not making a difference in elementary school hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m... Great story by @huffakingit.bsky.social
Massachusetts virtual schools keep growing, despite COVID — and longstanding — academic struggles - The Boston Globe
Statewide virtual schools have grown in enrollment by more than half since 2019.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m... Great story by @huffakingit.bsky.social
In yesterday's Boston Globe Magazine: My story on the Southern Surge and the Northern Nosedive.
New England schools are failing — and ‘nobody seems to care’ - The Boston Globe
Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In yesterday's Boston Globe Magazine: My story on the Southern Surge and the Northern Nosedive.
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Fifty years ago, the United States made a pledge: No child, no matter how complex their disability, would be deprived an education.
That pledge never came true.
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That pledge never came true.
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Autistic children denied schooling amid lack of federal funding
The federal government has never fully funded special education, leaving schools across the country ill-equipped to teach children with severe disabilities. Today the US government contributes a mere ...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Fifty years ago, the United States made a pledge: No child, no matter how complex their disability, would be deprived an education.
That pledge never came true.
via @bostonglobe.com
That pledge never came true.
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This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social
As questions linger, family and school grieve for Boston 5-year-old killed in April bus crash - The Boston Globe
There have been few answers in the nearly two months since a Boston Public Schools bus struck and killed Lens Joseph on April 28.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social
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It’s a place where staff notice when a student got caught in the rain walking to school and offer them dry socks, where students insist as part of a “week of joy” on helping organize their teachers’ offices, and where many students and families wish they could stay longer. @bostonglobe.com
BPS closes its last middle school, following national trend of consolidating campuses - The Boston Globe
Standalone campuses for grades 6-8 are becoming rarer across the country and Boston has undertaken a broad effort to shift students to schools for grades 7-12.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It’s a place where staff notice when a student got caught in the rain walking to school and offer them dry socks, where students insist as part of a “week of joy” on helping organize their teachers’ offices, and where many students and families wish they could stay longer. @bostonglobe.com
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It’s a generation permanently scarred.
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com
‘The pandemic broke us’: Mass. superintendents see long road to recovery for students - The Boston Globe
Dozens of Massachusetts superintendents said it will be years before students catch up to pre-COVID levels.
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April 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It’s a generation permanently scarred.
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Massachusetts students remain far behind where they were when the global health catastrophe struck and school leaders undertook the drastic step of shutting in-person learning down for months. @bostonglobe.com
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We used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. But that was over 20 years ago. We still have Kevin Bacon, thank goodness.
July 2, 2023 at 12:06 PM
We used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope. But that was over 20 years ago. We still have Kevin Bacon, thank goodness.