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The cost of excessive suspensions
A stunning and utterly disturbing report from Texas released last month brought into sharp focus just how much strict school discipline policies are costing our children — and how much Maryland needs to do to reform its own approach.
The exhaustive...Tags: Schools, Punishment, Constitutional Issues, African Americans, Eric Holder
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The hidden impediment to school renovation
A major reason many Maryland jurisdictions — especially Baltimore County and Baltimore City — confront a growing problem of aging, obsolete school buildings is an obscure bit of Internal Revenue Service bureaucracy called the "prior use rule."...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Credits, Investments, Finance, Taxation
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Three steps to fix our schools
The nation's public schools have been battered by a continuing stream of bad news in the past few years, challenging what at one time was considered one of the world's leading education systems. In 2010, the results of international testing comparing...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning, Maryland General Assembly, Students
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States can apply for waivers to No Child Left Behind
With a growing number of states rebelling against the No Child Left Behind law and stalled efforts in Congress to reform it, the Obama administration says it will grant waivers to liberate states from a law that it considers dysfunctional. Education...Tags: School Examinations, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning, Examinations
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At Wilde Lake High, lessons of diversity and inclusion for Secretary of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit to Wilde Lake High School Tuesday and called the Columbia school a microcosm of the educational world: diverse and inclusive.
Duncan and Assistant Secretary of Education Alexa Posny joined Wilde...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students
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U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan visits Wilde Lake High School
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who says he has seen a broad spectrum of the nation's schools, from successful to struggling, left Wilde Lake High School this week singing not only its praises but those of the Howard County school system. During...Tags: Towson, High Schools, Schools, Fort Meade (military base), Teaching and Learning
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Maryland wins $50 million Race to Top grant for early childhood programs
Maryland was one of nine states that won a federal competition Friday for early education funds intended to boost the quality of programs available to young children. The state, which has been seen as a strong proponent of early childhood programs for...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Columbia University, Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Financial Aid
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2011 school test scores will be clean, Alonso vows
The Baltimore SunAfter announcing that cheating had occurred at two elementary schools in the past two years, Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso vowed Thursday that results of the 2011 Maryland School Assessment tests would be the most "extraordinarily transparent set of...Tags: Criminals, Teaching and Learning, Examinations, Ice Hockey, George Washington
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Michelle Obama reads Green Eggs and Ham
Dining@LargeJoined by Education secretary Arne Duncan, Michelle Obama reads the Dr. Seuss "foodie classic" to a gathering at the Library of Congress. Via Obama Foodorama. Right after, in the interest of fairness, Sarah Palin read The Fountainhead from start to......Tags: Dr. Seuss, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama
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Mayor signals schools upgrade
Sun StaffCHICAGO -- Mayor Martin O'Malley said yesterday that he will emulate Chicago's most visible and successful school reform by spearheading a campaign over the next six months to upgrade Baltimore's public school buildings, which need more than $1 billion in...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Teaching and Learning, Richard M. Daley, Executive Branch, Government
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California won't get relief from No Child Left Behind law
The federal government made it clear again Monday that California will get no relief from education mandates that officials across the country consider a burden. The point was made as the U.S. Department of Education announced that it granted three more...
Tags: Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, U.S. Department of Education, Students
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EDITORIAL: County schools rise to a linguistic challenge; Finding old words
The Capital, Annapolis, Md.Just as the international supremacy of the dollar let Americans be spendthrift, the international supremacy of English made Americans lazy about learning other tongues. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted in 2010 that only 18 percent of...Tags: Annapolis, Literature, Teaching and Learning, The Washington Post, Students
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