At or near the top of the long list of what makes Central Massachusetts an attractive alternative to other areas of the state and the country is its affordability. The WPI ranking comes on the heels of Anna Maria College and Quinsigamond Community College creating a $40,000 program for first responders and social workers to…

Woodstock Academy welcomed Dr. Sarah Cushman as its third guest in a Genocide Speaker Series on March 7. Cushman is the head of educational programming at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester. She has made it her mission to take a hard look at the Holocaust and examine…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose first job after college was as a special needs instructor for young children and who went on to teach aspiring lawyers at Harvard Law School, was in full history lesson mode today as she drew connections between the federal governments main education law and the civil rights struggles of the 1950s…

Elizabeth Warren credited her own public school education with getting her to where she is today a senator fighting for all children to get a world class education. The senator from Massachusetts spoke at Clark University Monday morning in the sixth annual Gurel Lecture that focused on urban education. Warren, whose own career started as…

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a liberal superstar who has remained on the sidelines during the presidential race, said she is now getting more involved, spurred by the ugliness in the Republican race. “I’m getting more involved and I will get more involved as we head closer and closer to November. I’m watching what’s happening right…

During his tenure as national editor of The Washington Post in the early 1970s, Ben H. Bagdikian embarked on two secret missions under very different circumstances. First, he obtained the Pentagon Papers for The Post, physically delivering them to the home of then-editor Benjamin C. Bradlee. The publication of the papers ultimately resulted in a…

Photographer and filmmaker Stephen DiRado and composer Matthew Malsky will have a reception for their exhibition Jump-Devolve-Whisper at Clark University at 9:30 p.m. March 16. Their audio/visual installations feature large- and small-scale new films by DiRado and new sound compositions by Malsky. Both are Clark faculty members known for their provocative work, but this is…