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Students find surprise, inspiration and friendship half a world away
After almost two months in China, 27 high school students from Baltimore County Public Schools returned home July 17 with new friendships, souvenirs and countless tales of their adventures as strangers in a strange land. "It was so cool," said...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Randallstown, Towson, Joe A. Hairston, China
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Students find surprise, friendship on China trip
After almost two months in China, 27 high school students from Baltimore County's public schools returned home July 17 with new friendships, souvenirs and tales of their adventures as strangers in a strange land. "It was so cool," said Lutherville...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Schools, Randallstown, High Schools, Joe A. Hairston
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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: Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, The Washington Post, Tom Harkin, Judges
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Elkridge: Volunteer fire department sounds the alarm for 21st annual holiday food drive
OK, Elkridge and Hanover: Here's a 9-1-1 to the community from the fire department! It's that time of year again, and the Elkridge Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring its 21st annual foliday food drive to benefit families in need Elkridge and the...Tags: Catonsville, Holidays, Howard County, Fires, Patapsco
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Stripping the stigma from student homelessness
Jessica Anderson's report on the rising number of homeless students in Maryland highlights a problem that has remained off the radar of many policymakers, school staff and the public ("State's student homeless population doubles," Jan. 22). As advocates,...Tags: Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Homelessness, Teaching and Learning
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Penn State echoes Lancers scandal
So, an elderly man, well-known in his community, heads a charitable organization to serve young boys. Through that organization, he picks out certain boys to serve his sexual interests. His modus operandi is to give special attention to the boys he has...Tags: Judges, Abusive Behavior, Justice System
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At college application time, pity the guidance counselor
I am not one of Maryland's public high school guidance counselors, and yet at this time of year, I feel their pain. So I shall speak up for them, because they have no voice — or at least I can't hear their desperate, muffled cries from beneath the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Schools, High Schools, Students, Colleges and Universities
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Teacher evaluation system deserves failing grade
As a retired educator with 35 years of service, I can only describe the job evaluation criteria outlined by the Maryland Council for Educator Effectiveness with 50 percent of a teacher's rating to be based on student performance as absolutely asinine ("...Tags: Academic Progress, Maryland
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Stop blaming teachers for poor student performance
The Baltimore City Council, spurred by Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, deserves praise for its resolution endorsing the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action, to be held in Washington, D.C., on July 30. This march, and the national attention it...Tags: Academic Progress, Mary Pat Clarke, Maryland, Wages and Pensions, Executive Branch
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Closing Baltimore's achievement gap with housing policy
A recent Abell Foundation study has confirmed what educators have long known: That where a student lives has at least as big an impact on academic achievement as such factors as family income, class size and per pupil spending. In fact, attending a school...Tags: Teaching and Learning, American Civil Liberties Union, Interior Policy, Montgomery County (Maryland), Baltimore County
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Distinguished Scholars program deserved to be cut
On a personal level, the abrupt demise of the Maryland Distinguished Scholar program is understandably distressing to high school senior Lindsay Michocki ("Seniors stunned by Md. scholarship cuts," May 11). On a policy level, however, the program was a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Maryland, Awards and Prizes
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Grasmick's education legacy not so stellar
It was so refreshing and delightful to read Marta Mossburg's recent column peeling back years of carefully crafted veneer to expose Nancy Grasmick's true legacy and set the record straight ("Maryland's uneducated graduates," May 11). Ten years ago, I...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Nancy Grasmick, Maryland
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