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Earlier this year we at Volta Learning Group worked with Northern Essex Community College and the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education to research, develop and provide recommendations [...]

In normal times, August is Back-to-School season with articles about homesickness and ads for dorm room supplies. This year, however, the attention is on the serious decisions being made by [...]

On a recent webinar, respected higher education practitioners, policymakers and researchers discussed and debated the future of higher education. As is so often the case in such discussions, the [...]

Lack of child care and partial school openings may prevent many people from returning to work this fall in factories, stores, and offices.  Reinventing Child Care in Massachusetts, a webinar [...]

I cringe a little when I hear the phrase, much bandied about these days: “don’t waste a good crisis.” It seems altogether too crass, too flippant for the painful times we are living in, now [...]

After months of record-breaking and spirit-crushing unemployment, the US has officially entered a recession. But while endless articles have been published on the dire consequences for four-year [...]