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Education

Looking Out for Each Other

And when at last, the candy dropped from the battered piñata, children organized the collecting of loot. There was no mosh pit. No fighting over handfuls of dried out Tootsie Rolls and Dum Dums.

Education

Early School Start Times: High Cost of Status Quo

It's expensive to change start times? How much is it costing us to maintain the status quo?

Education

Support HB 1462 Start School Later Task Force at Annapolis Hearing

We need you to act now so our Later School Start Task Force Bill, HB 1462 can pass a House vote.

Education

Challenge: Open a Mission Hill School in Montgomery County

What legacy is school chief Joshua Starr really building? Will he leave behind a string of small progressive demographic schools?

Education

Starr Kicks Me to the Curb: The Non-Interview

Superintendent Joshua Starr refuses an interview with a black Montgomery County blogger. Here are the achievement gap questions he refused to answer.

Education

Better by the Dozen: Achievement Gap-Closing Efforts

Ike Leggett jumps on board the gap-closing bandwagon.

Education

Is Superintendent Starr Going to Jail?

Why would Martians think that all Blair High School kids are white? Why can’t Paint Branch students discover the cure for cancer?

Education

Who Knew That Our Kennedy Cluster Project Was 'Similar' to the Harlem Children's Zone?

A draft Montgomery County report says it is.

Education

Maryland Will Be In a 'Race to the Bottom' if Gov. O'Malley Fails to Act on Education

Rankings on quality criteria such as evaluating teacher performance show weakness in the public school system. Maryland earns a 'C' grade in that category.

Education

You'd be proud, too...

Lessons learned from our intern... Matt H. is back at Evergreen School as part of his school’s internship/service learning program. He is a currently a freshman at The Siena School in Silver Spring.

 
 
 

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