Start-ups focus on creating tools for teachers
Entrepreneur Sarah Cherry Rice described her curriculum-mapping tool for teachers at a recent Waltham event.

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A growing movement of young people — many former teachers — are using technology to improve education, but from outside the classroom.

Boston’s schools a major issue for mayoral hopefuls

Proposals to overhaul the Boston public schools abound, making education one of the most talked-about issues thus far.

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On Tuesday, the jurors will begin deciding the fate of Bulger after 35 days of testimony by 72 witnesses and six hours of closing arguments.

Steve Davis (white hair, in front of microphones), the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, spoke to the reporters outside the Moakley federal courthouse as joggers passed by Monday.

Kevin Cullen

Closing arguments in Whitey’s case like theater

It was disturbing to listen to the defense try to pin all of Bulger’s crimes on a corrupt FBI and Justice Department.

Prospective Boston Globe owner John W. Henry (left) talked with graphic designer David Butler on Monday during a newsroom tour.

In Globe visit, Henry plays role of observer

John Henry spent several hours at The Boston Globe Monday, less than three days after he agreed to buy the newspaper from the New York Times.

Washington Post to be sold to founder of Amazon

Jeff Bezos stunned the media industry by announcing plans to acquire another pillar of mainstream media: The Washington Post.

Alex Rodriguez held a press conference before the game Monday night in Chicago.

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On Baseball

Many MLB players happy with PED suspensions

Players used to talk about witchhunts by the league. Now they’re excited that investigators went after the cheaters with everything they had.

Tayshia Holmes-Maxwell worked at the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program office in Cambridge on Monday.

Still tough for teens to find summer jobs

Teenage employment has stalled this summer, despite hopes that an improving economy would mean more opportunities.

Opinion

TOM KEANE

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If politicians really cared about helping retailers and shoppers, they would cut the sales tax rate across the board.

Globe exclusives

Tom Strangfeld at home in East Harwich.

Helping people take back their yards
Esperanza Spalding performing Sunday night at Tanglewood. She played both electric and acoutic basses.

Music Review

Spalding lights up Tanglewood

Album Review | FOLK/COUNTRY

Tension, grace on ‘The Civil Wars’
Olympia and Apollo Dukakis in the Shakespeare & Company production of “Mother Courage and Her Children.’’

Stage Review

Measuring the toll of war in ‘Mother Courage’
Maria Vasquez was able to keep her home in Revere after a Suffolk Superior Court ruled that the mortgage holder was misidentified in foreclosure proceedings.

Banks accused of rules violation
Archeologists Rosemary Pinales and Scott McGaughey worked at a site undisturbed by centuries of nearby development.

North End dig hits pay dirt
Runners compete in the 2012 Boston Marathon.

Health

How much exercise is too much?
John Henry, center, whose bid for the Globe was accepted by the Times Co., spent Sunday evening watching the Boston Red Sox play Arizona from the EMC Level at Fenway Park.

3 groups say they topped Henry’s bid
Geralda Figueroa, a Boston health inspector, told Kim Crocker and Robert MacClean how to avoid violations.

Food truck popularity outrunning hygiene
Worcester Polytechnic Institute students work on an Atlas robot, which was delivered as part of a Pentagon project.

Vying to give brawny robot a brain
Stephanie Scarcella, as Cenerentola, and Zac Engle, as Prince Ramiro, take center stage in Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” at the Strand Theatre.

Opera Review

BOC’s ‘Cinderella’ triumphs at Strand
Pier 4 developers have proposed using special flood barriers to protect new buildings.

Rising water levels threaten waterfront

Sports

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Mike Napoli was 0 for 4 and left five runners on base.

Red Sox offense silenced by Astros

The Red Sox managed only five hits and never came close to scoring in a discouraging 2-0 loss.

Metro

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Monsignor Arthur Coyle

Archdiocesan official charged with soliciting a prostitute

Monsignor Arthur Coyle took a voluntary leave from his post as episcopal vicar for the Merrimack region.

Columnists

A picture taken from inside a car shows Iranians waiting at a bus station in downtown Tehran in June.

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Tehran calculations
Steve Davis (white hair, in front of microphones), the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, spoke to the reporters outside the Moakley federal courthouse as joggers passed by Monday.

Kevin Cullen

The theater of Whitey
Pope Francis waved from his popemobile on the Copacabana beachfront in Brazil.

JAMES CARROLL

The pope’s ‘culture of solidarity’

JOHN E. SUNUNU

‘Grand bargain’ is a grand head fake
Shane Victorino held a little impromptu meet-and-greet with some of the 37,611 Fenway Faithful in Sunday’s game.

Christopher L. Gasper

These Red Sox are Dirt Dogs again
Danny Ainge entrusted the Celtics’ head coaching job to 36-year-old Brad Stevens.

Bob Ryan

Stevens has a tough road ahead in NBA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor’s race looms over Suffolk casino
Dockyard, a small Boston-based company, could be facing a significant cost increase, says principal Brian Cardarella.

Innovation Economy

Tech firms learning a costly lesson
Lucy loves to share online songs and videos with her grandmother.

Beverly Beckham

Would a ‘cure’ change the love?

Christopher L. Gasper

Drawing up a safer way to practice

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces

Nation & World

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Intercepts of orders from Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahri led to closures of US facilities around the world.

Al Qaeda chief ordered attack as early as past weekend

Intercepts of orders from Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahri led to closures of US facilities around the world.

Politics

President Obama will also renew his calls for sweeping mortgage refinancing legislation when he travels to Phoenix on Tuesday.

President Obama to focus on housing market

President Obama will urge Congress this week to back bipartisan efforts to shutter mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Business

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The tower will be the first major office building in Seaport Square.

PricewaterhouseCoopers to move to Seaport tower

The accounting giant has signed a lease that will trigger construction of a 17-story office building to begin later this month.

Arts

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Lil Wayne (pictured performing in New Jersey in June) teamed with T.I. Sunday night at the Comcast Center.

T.I., Lil Wayne dig into name-making hits

Both rappers staked a claim to their illustrious pasts and looked ahead to the future in their concert at the Comcast Center.

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Magazine

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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul

Ideas

“There hasn’t been a meaningful rethinking of who should appear on our paper money since 1928, when early versions of the bills we still use today entered circulation.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on American currency