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'So You Think You Can Dance': Top 18 perform
Reality CheckRandi and Evan are the first couple on tonight's So You Think You Can Dance, and the interview segments are pegged to 'things America should know about your partner.' We learn that Randi loves her dog and Evan likes cars......Tags: Music, Movies, Hip Hop (genre), Justice System, Michael Jackson
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'So You Think You Can Dance': Top 14 perform
Reality CheckOn tonight's So You Think You Can Dance, Mia Michaels is one of the guest judges. As you might recall, she was really hard on dancer Brandon, and host Cat Deeley refers to this when she asks whether her opinion......Tags: Health and Safety at School, Mia Michaels, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Debbie Allen, Judy Garland
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What Republicans eat
Dining@LargeActually, today's fine guest post by Robert of Cross Keys is about what Republicans and Democrats eat, but that was a little long-winded for a headline. I couldn't talk him into a photo of himself and his wife in their......Tags: Health and Safety at School, Los Angeles Times, Dining and Drinking, The Shawshank Redemption (movie), National Government
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'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: Top 10 perform
Reality CheckTonight, the Top 10 on So You Think You Can Dance get new partners, new dances and voted on solely by the viewers. It's a whole new ball game, is what I'm saying.The first couple (no intros!) is Ryan and......Tags: Halloween Costumes, Danny Kaye, Stranger Than Fiction, Broadway Theater, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Loyola joins SAT-optional colleges
Loyola College's Jesuit tradition calls for it to serve students who did not start with every economic, social or geographic advantage.
Widespread research, meanwhile, shows that standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT favor those from privileged...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Teaching and Learning, Middlebury, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Texas at Austin
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Digging the past
Special to The Baltimore SunStudents patiently scraped away a shallow layer of dirt in a trio of test pits last week as gentle breezes wafted past, nudging the stubborn humidity of summer southward. Nearby, a 6-foot-long segment of stone wall barely crested the soil's surface in...Tags: Heads of State, Health and Safety at School, Archaeology, Colleges and Universities, Dining and Drinking
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Pushing hard, with no excuses
Top administrators in the Baltimore City school system were used to staff meetings with fluid agendas that left time for all to speak.
But now, Andrés Alonso was presiding. And class was in session.
When I send you an e-mail, the schools' new chief...Tags: PTA, Employment, Maryland, Minority Groups, Budgets and Budgeting
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Alonso comes 'as is'
He'd been controlling his temper all day, plotting how to say what was on his mind. His chance came at 6:45 that evening.
Andrés Alonso, Baltimore schools chief executive officer, arrived in Mount Vernon to meet with a few dozen of the city's most active...Tags: Executive Branch, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Philosophy, Fells Point, Maryland
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Effort's goal is to make solid citizens of criminals
TOMI HIERS, who serves in the Ehrlich administration with a half-mile title - executive assistant to the deputy secretary for operations, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - believes the Republican governor of Maryland means to do what...Tags: Executive Branch, Health and Safety at School, Culture, Sociology, Maryland
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Md., U.S. testing results clash
Sun reporterThe majority of Maryland's fourth-graders are either reading whizzes or they are stumbling miserably. It all depends on who is doing the testing. If it's the federal government, only 32 percent of Maryland's fourth-graders are proficient at reading....Tags: Washington County (Maryland), Bowie, Teaching and Learning, Maryland, Colleges and Universities
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School narrows the gap
Sun StaffAt Bryant Woods Elementary in Columbia, teachers and administrators see the latest statewide test results as a sign that they are moving closer to their goal of narrowing the academic gap between minority and white pupils. The school - where half of...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Arts, Maryland, Examinations
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Progress lacking at three schools
Sun StaffThree years into national education reforms that strive to close achievement gaps, the rate of academic progress among special-education pupils and English language learners continues to pose a challenge for Carroll County schools officials. In Carroll,...Tags: Standards, Students, Teaching and Learning, Carroll County (Maryland), Maryland
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