Roxbury
These Roxbury Prep Kids Can Kick Your Kid’s MCAS!
Charter school advocates think they know how to save our students. With charters like Roxbury Prep set to expand dramatically, we’re about to find out if they’re right.
The StreetSafe Question
What’s the best way to turn around a young street thug? According to a revolutionary social program being revived in Boston’s roughest neighborhoods, the answer just might be: with a reformed one.
Two of a Kind
“Every room is an installation,” says Alessandra Mondolfi, as she touches an antique steel surgical lamp in the purple kitchen of the rambling 19th-century Roxbury […]
If You Lived Here … You’d Never Want To Leave
If You Lived Here . . . Youd Never Want To Leave
The Right Private School for Your Kid
A prep school education, as any parent who’s ever signed a tuition check well knows, is a serious investment. And considering the money you’re laying […]
Public vs. Private — The Best High Schools
Chris Coughlin, a tall, sandy-haired senior at Noble and Greenough School, knew he’d had enough of Natick High School when his geometry teacher assigned a […]
Bobby Brown’s Bum Rap
Bobby Brown was late, of course. He’d been ordered to show up at the Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton at 8:30 a.m. […]
Growing Up in Gangland
Elliot Delgado shivers inside his collar as a stiff wind blows through the park in Dorchester’s Fields Corner section. He’s not wearing a hat, and […]
The Shape of Jazz That Was
It was on Washington Street, walking by Krey’s music store at age 11, that I was first drawn to what has become a lifetime immersion […]
When a Gangsta Goes to College
Jason Pierce had been gone two years from the ghetto. A college man now, and hauled up by his own bootstraps too. He’d always been […]
Getting the Blues
Rivulets of sweat run east and west of Peter Parcek’s eyes, trickling from under the band of his porkpie hat as he squints at his […]
The Ways of the Gun
The Ways of the Gun