EDUCATION

We get a live music performance from Indë to celebrate their debut album, get an overview of the family friendly Platform Festival at the Community Music School, and have our weekly check-in with Rep. Jim MCGovern.

Boston quartet High Horse stops by for Live Music Wednesday, a visit to Meadowsweet Farm, and Word Nerd Emily Brewster takes a look at the word "dream"

We speak with Joe Kennedy III about his time in northern Ireland, get a snapshot of the Irish music and culture at the upcoming Rosie Caine and the Wild Irish Shenanigans show, and talk about some of our favorite Irish Bands.

A group of rural educators and elected officials from around Massachusetts are sending a week-long SOS to Beacon Hill lawmakers, letting them know, not for the first time, the destructive consequences of underfunding the state's rural schools.

Chicopee is now the first school district in the state to have cameras installed on their school buses to ensure drivers adhere to the stop signs attached to the vehicles. officials said.

We hear live music with the Blues legend Corey Harris, try wines with winemaker Filipa Pato at Provisions, and take a look at Merriam-Webster's new slang dictionary webpage.

When contract negotiations are complete, Jackie Glasheen, an educator in the Holyoke Schools for more than 30 years, will take the helm as its new superintendent.

While college students may have choices for how they get course materials, increasingly teachers are assigning electronic or e-textbooks. Massachusetts lawmakers have proposed a special state commission that would look at the financial impact of e-books on students.

Today on The Rundown, panelists discuss the local impacts hydropower facilities across the region, the nicotine-free generation initiative, and an app that helps reduce screen time.

The student quiz show began in 1961 and is the longest continuously running broadcast show of its kind in Massachusetts.