Leading Change in City Schools: Urban Education Reform in Action

Coverage from Apr. 25, 1960-Present. Requires an HUID to access.

EdWeek Market Brief provides original reporting, analysis, proprietary data and research focused on education products and services for the PK-12 education field. The resource was created for both providers of education products and services and school district leaders. Requires an HUID to access.

PELP case studies illuminate systems-level leadership challenges in large urban districts and education-related organizations. Together with research notes and teaching notes for instructors, the PELP case library is an extensive body of working knowledge for academics and practitioners alike. Please follow the directions on the page to access the specific case studies mentioned.

Nearly all educators in Massachusetts are required to be licensed. Requirements for licensure vary by the type of position and where you are on your career path. The licensure site explains the licensure types and their requirements. If you are an out-of-state candidate, you can learn more on how to become a Massachusetts educator in the Out-of-State Applicant Licensure section.

As of July 1, 2014, educators applying for their first Initial license (specifically core academic teachers of ELLs and principals/assistant principals and supervisors/directors who supervise or evaluate such teachers) must obtain the SEI endorsement.

Contains information on licensure support, data/analytics, employee services/records, etc.

Analyze Boston is the City of Boston's open data hub to find facts, figures, and maps related to our lives within the city. We are working to make this the default technology platform to support the publication of the City's public information, in the form of data, and to make this information easy to find, access, and use by a broad audience. This platform is managed by the Citywide Analytics Team.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion provides access to summary-level (aggregate) and micro-level (raw) public opinion data. While the data collection focuses strongly on United States public opinion.

This links back to the Boston Public Library guide on conducting historical research on Boston Public Schools.

This site showcases materials from various Boston archives selected by graduate students in the History and American Studies departments at UMass Boston. The items presented here do not represent complete collections from any one archive; rather, students selected letters, drawings, photographs, memorandums, interviews, and other materials to provide a representative sample of perspectives on “forced busing” in Boston. Using varied media and materials from local archives, the exhibits weave together a narrative about this chapter in Boston’s history. Students also blogged about their experiences researching their topics on Reflections on Researching the Desegregation of Boston Public Schools.

This collection is available in person, but some items have been digitized.

The Boston Public Schools Desegregation Collection is a digital library of scanned archival materials documenting the desegregation of Boston’s public schools. The collection brings together materials from numerous Boston-area institutions and covers the time period beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and focusing on the Morgan v. Hennigan case (1974) and the court-ordered plan to desegregate the Boston Public Schools (BPS). The collections document the implementation of busing students to different neighborhoods to rebalance the racial makeup of schools, the resulting citywide unrest, and developments in Boston school desegregation efforts in the following decades.

Essays written by bused Boston sixth-graders, 40 years later.

Do a search for Boston Public Schools.

Has basic information about the executive team. For a detailed organizational chart, please visit https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/7800

This website helps to explain where and how the Boston Public School system proposes spending resources.

Education finance data include revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets [cash and security holdings] of elementary and secondary public school systems. Statistics cover school systems in all states, and include the District of Columbia.

A bite-sized summary of Boston Public Schools' School Committee meetings.

The Battle for Boston tells the story of the movement to desegregate Boston’s public schools—and all the backlash that followed.

Basic Black discusses issues in Boston's public schools, including standardized testing, charter schools, and race relations at Boston Latin School.

In this 1974 television news footage from WGBH: "Evening Compass", citizens stage a protest in response to mandatory busing to desegregate the Boston Public Schools.

A podcast about mental health, coping skills, prevention, and wellness made for Boston teenagers by Boston teenagers.

In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.

This site includes information on enrollment data, assessment, student attendance, student retention, and other data.