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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Healthy living The Baltimore Washington Medical Center will present a discussion of diabetes prevention, exercise to achieve weight loss, and how to lower blood pressure and cholesterol from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. June 6 and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. June...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diabetes, Suboxone (drug), Annapolis, Weight
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Free cookbook The Learn to Live program of the Department of Health has a new healthful eating kit that features a free cookbook and tips that will help you select foods high in fiber and low in fat and sodium. Recipes are also quick, easy and...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diabetes, Suboxone (drug), Annapolis, Diseases and Illnesses
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Baltimore students remain in bottom third on test vs. other cities
Baltimore's scores on a rigorous national math and reading test were in the bottom third of large urban school districts across the country, though educators highlighted some progress in math and a promising trend of better-than-average results among some...Tags: Andres Alonso, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Students, Teachers
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Most Harford high school students test proficient, but three schools need improvement, state says
Statewide data released late last week show students across the board at most of Harford County's 11 high schools tested proficient for reading and math in the latest annual Maryland High School Assessment, or HSA. Most of the local schools are...Tags: Schools, Harford County, Teaching and Learning, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Students
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Tobacco sales compliance The health department's Learn to Live program offers to retailers a tobacco sales compliance kit. The kit includes a training guide that explains Maryland's tobacco laws. It's illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the...Tags: Lab Tests, Glen Burnie, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hospitals and Clinics, Methadone (drug)
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Two Harford County elementary schools on School Improvement list
Two Harford County elementary schools have been identified for "improvement," according to the 2011 Maryland Report Card released Wednesday afternoon. The results are based on Maryland State Assessments, or MSAs, for reading and math proficiency in third...Tags: Elementary Schools, Schools, Harford County, Maryland
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After more than 30 years, Leslie Shepard says goodbye to the Baltimore School for the Arts
The boy in the black leotard was throwing yet another temper tantrum.
Seventeen-year-old Bilal Smith had his back to his dance instructor at the Baltimore School for the Arts. As she demonstrated a movement sequence to the class, Bilal bent from the...Tags: Lake Forest College, History, The Wire (tv program), Retirement, Teaching and Learning
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Q&A // Camille Freeman, Wilde Lake, volleyball
Camille Freeman, a 16-year-old senior at Wilde Lake, captains the Wildecats varsity volleyball team and is, in the words of her coach, Caitlin Geoghan, "the most vocal leader we have." This year's squad is 11-3 overall, 11-2 in the county, compiling...Tags: Christianity, Baptist, Volleyball
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St. John's College
Special to SunSpotWant to know what the finest minds in history had to say about things like politics, science, love, death, art, philosophy and war? Go straight to the source. At St. John's College "Where Great Books Are The Teachers," the idea is that a thinking mind...Tags: Death, Colleges and Universities, Annapolis
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Web site permits test score tracking
AT LAST: a handy new Web site that allows easy school-by-school comparisons in the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program. "Compare" is the operative word here. School people tend to avoid the comparison game because they think it stirs the...Tags: Book, Timonium, Catonsville, Baltimore County, Academic Progress
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Report card on an urban initiative
Sun StaffEIGHT YEARS ago, the federal government (with an assist from Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski) began investing heavily in math and science education in the nation's large cities, including Baltimore. Since then, the "Urban Systemic Initiative," an...Tags: Schools, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, High Schools, Academic Progress
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School grading formula: No school should fall more than one letter grade this year, Commissioner Robinson recommends
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelNo school should fall more than one letter grade on Florida's school report card this year, as a way to transition into the state's new, tougher school grading formula, Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson has recommended. Robinson plans to formally...
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