Christopher Huffaker

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."

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

interesting Proof Points column on male teachers seemingly not making a difference in elementary school hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m... Great story by @huffakingit.bsky.social

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.

In yesterday's Boston Globe Magazine: My story on the Southern Surge and the Northern Nosedive.

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 ...

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

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.

This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social

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.

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

‘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.

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

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.