THE BOSTON AREA is a hotbed of Nobelists. A number of prizewinners over the years have been on the faculties of local universities (e.g., at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University), and countless others have been educated locally or have passed through universities as faculty or postdocs on their way to fame elsewhere. Of the ten […]
Philip Altbach
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Where Mass. ranks on education tests
IN THE SEASON OF GRADUATIONS, it is worth looking at how Massachusetts and Boston stack up against international competitors in education. According to global university rankings and international school achievement tests, Massachusetts ranks near the top in global education excellence. According to the respected Academic Rankings of World Universities (the Shanghai rankings), when population is […]