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The Daily Free Press

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University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor of economics Javaeria Qureshi presented on teacher quality in relation to Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials in an event put on by Wheelock College of Education and Human Development Tuesday. VISHVA VENKATESAN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Wheelock seminar explores generational teaching differences

Carly Breland November 18, 2021
Professor Javaeria Quershi presented her research on Tuesday at the education school.
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EDITORIAL: Boston Police’s overtime budget is out of control, in desperate need of fewer officers, reallocation

Editors April 15, 2021
We must stop spending hundreds of millions paying the criminals, abusers and killers who “protect” us.
HIV-infected T cell

BU sociology department hosts HIV seminar with discussion on stigma, media exposure

Divya Sood March 4, 2021
Boston University's sociology department held an event Monday where researcher David Cort described how stigma around HIV can impact behavior.
A member of the Boston Teachers Union speaks at a press conference on Sept. 18. Boston Public Schools must remain open for in-person teaching despite opposition from the BTU due to a Wednesday Superior Court ruling. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Judge rules Boston Public Schools must remain open, despite teachers union’s objections

Nick Kolev October 19, 2020
BTU had filed an injunction earlier this month, requesting that teachers be allowed to teach remotely while the City’s positivity rate remains above 4 percent.
Dearborn STEM 6–12 Early College Academy in Boston. For Boston Public Schools, the 2020-2021 school year will begin remotely on Sept. 21, with the hopes of transitioning back to in-person classes in October or November. FELIX PHILLIPS/ DFP FILE

Remote learning brings challenges for BPS students

Daniel Kool September 4, 2020
Students will later be able to choose between fully online classes and a hybrid learning model, in which they would attend in-person lessons two days per week.
Bruce Smith, pictured here in 2014, died Wednesday. He was the second editor-in-chief at The Daily Free Press. PHOTO COURTESY OF MELANIE SMITH

Bruce Smith, former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Free Press, Dies at 62

Mina Corpuz January 26, 2015

[mediagrid cat="17544"] Bruce Raymond Smith, the second editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press, died in his home Wednesday from pancreatic cancer. He was 62, said Melanie Smith, his wife. Melanie described...

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