Education

Massachusetts added 9,300 jobs in September, driving the unemployment rate back below 4 percent.

A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received a $1.2 million grant to help integrate biology and computer science tools in high school classrooms.

The Easter Seals opened an assistive technology center in Worcester last week to help people with disabilities explore and test technology to increase independence.

The City of Worcester contends with blighted buildings in our inner city neighborhoods fallen to foreclosure.

It is important to ask the right questions when it comes to Amazon and the opportunity to become the host for its proposed second headquarters, dubbed HQ2.

The Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce received a $456,320 Skills Capital Grant from the state to implement vocational and technical training programs.

After the signing of a law calling for equal pay across gender lines, human services agencies are asking legislators for help closing a different sort of pay gap.

Students at the nine social work schools in Massachusetts will learn about preventing and treating substance misuse.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has given out $10 million in scholarships to Worcester County students in the 40 years since its inception.

Before President Donald Trump announced he would phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), I, along with the other presidents of all of Massachusetts' Community Colleges, spoke out in support of those in the program.