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Robert T. Brown, Veterans Administration executive
Robert T. Brown, a retired Veterans Administration executive, died Aug. 25 at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson after suffering a fall earlier in the summer. He was 96.
Born in Jamaica on Long Island, N.Y., he attended the St. Paul's School...Tags: Garden City (Nassau, New York), Veterans Affairs, Baltimore County, George Washington University, Long Island
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Straighterline wants to help professors expand reach, while students save
Burck Smith is so far making good on his vision for revamping the way people pay for and complete college courses. His startup company, Straighterline, enables students to pay $99 a month for introductory college courses — and potentially save...Tags: StraighterLine, Teachers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Teaching and Learning, Advanced Training
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Turning it around
As a new school year begins, my preparation as a principal has been punctuated by an unusual and unexpected invitation to Washington D.C. This month, I was named a Champion of Change at the White House by a program run by the Office of the President....
Tags: Arne Duncan, Science, Heavy Engineering, Customs and Tradition, Teaching and Learning
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Batts, new Baltimore police chief pick, says he's committed
Baltimore's next police commissioner believes the drug trade is at the core of crime problems from car break-ins to gang killings. And it's an issue that Anthony W. Batts says he's seen up close. "I have relatives who have had addiction problems, and...
Tags: Laura Richardson, Government, Jean Quan, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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School board approves $200,000 Harvard contract
The Board of Education has approved a $206,620 contract establishing a two-year partnership between county schools and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research. Initially approved during the consent agenda portion of the Thursday, Aug. 9...Tags: Renee Foose
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Dr. John E. Adams
Dr. John E. Adams, a pathologist who chaired the department of pathology at Greater Baltimore Medical Center for more than two decades after its founding and was a leading expert in bioethics, died July 9 of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson....Tags: Television Networks, Pathology, Boston, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Timonium
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Schools hoping for boost from Harvard research center
By rigorously analyzing data across the school system, a partnership with Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research will help the system better serve students through more effective policies and programs and better budgeted resources,...Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Research, Students
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Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, Hopkins physics professor
Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, a Johns Hopkins University physics professor who advised his visiting academic colleagues where they should eat in Baltimore, died of an apparent heart attack July 26 at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.,...Tags: Teachers, George Washington University, Recipes, Science, Teaching and Learning
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New Harford Community College Vice President
The Board of Trustees of Harford Community College announces that Fredrick "Rick" P. Johnson has been selected as vice president for finance and operations. He is replacing John Cox, who accepted a position as President of Cape Cod Community College in...Tags: George W. Bush, University of Missouri , Colleges and Universities, Harford Community College
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William Boulton 'Bo' Kelly Jr., architect and preservationist
William Boulton "Bo" Kelly Jr., a Baltimore architect, preservationist and civic leader who founded Baltimore Heritage and helped establish the Baltimore's Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice in...Tags: Annapolis, Architecture, Anglicanism, Princeton University, Fishing
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Julian Samuel Stein Jr., PR executive
Julian Samuel Stein Jr., a retired public relations executive who was an adviser to Gov. J. Millard Tawes, died June 22 of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The Tuscany-Canterbury resident was 93.
Born in Baltimore, Mr. Stein was the son of a...Tags: National Government, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Media Industry, Howard University, College Sports
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Liner United States set record for trans-Atlantic voyage
Sixty years ago this week, the world's attention was riveted on one man's dream as the liner United States, designed by William Francis Gibbs, steamed eastward across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage.
Known as "The Big U," the liner sailed from New...Tags: Cruises, The New York Times, Shipbuilding, Tourism and Leisure, Architecture
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