As a child, Clappe attended the primary public education that was mandatory of all Massachusetts schools.
The school ranked 18th out of 338 Massachusetts high schools in English, with 32 percent of students testing as advanced.
Officials estimate that 64,000, or 8 percent, of students in Massachusetts primary schools now attend "schools of choice."
From the beginning of the university it has been strongly following the education system and academic curriculum of the Massachusetts schools.
In the early 1980s, he was a part time Physical Education teacher in a Massachusetts middle school.
He taught one year in a Massachusetts public school.
A Massachusetts elementary school has just banned the game of tag.
Many of her friends at her Massachusetts high school use it too, and sometimes her father joins her.
At another Massachusetts school, students write on the back of scrap paper donated by Nynex, the telephone company.
Under current policies, no student pays the full cost of an education at Massachusetts schools.