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Documents show that system ignored flawed information in cheating investigation
When Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke visited Abbottston Elementary after news broke that the school had cheated on state testing for students in 2009, she despaired because she never believed Principal Angela Faltz, whom she had known for...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Prosecution, Mary Pat Clarke, Andres Alonso, Students
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Secure the tests
This week, schools in Baltimore City and across Maryland are administering the state standardized tests in reading and math for students in the third through eighth grades. There's a lot riding on the outcome. Among other things, the test results will...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress, Students, Teachers, School Examinations
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Baltimore highlighted in national cheating probe
The Atlanta Journal Constitution--the newspaper that single-handedly uncovered a massive cheating scandal in Atlanta's public schools last year that saw its superintendent resign in disgrace and several educators possibly facing criminal charges--took its...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Apples, Students
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Fourteen vying for three seats on school board
Jim Adams 70, Ellicott City, retired auditor and accountant, three-time former candidate for District 9 seat in Maryland Senate The focus of Jim Adams' campaign is simple: the student. "That's the most important thing," he said. "I'd like to develop an...Tags: Science, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Ellicott City, Customs and Tradition, Thurgood Marshall
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Schools with grants struggle with teacher evaluation systems
Elliott Elementary in Lincoln, Neb., struck off on its own last year when it became the only school in the city to win money through the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. Winning wasn't something to be proud of, though: It meant the school...Tags: Financial Aid, Freedom of the Press, Teachers Unions, U.S. Department of Education, Concerts
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City schools with federal turnaround grants have mixed results
Once students hurled computers out the windows at Calverton Middle School, but today they are learning on state-of-the-art technology that has flooded into the West Baltimore school. Once teachers couldn't wait to transfer out of a place where students...Tags: Egypt, Bowie, Cook County, Government Aid, Crossroads
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Tests don't measure teachers
If we really care about the education of young people in poverty, we will stop focusing on test results and pay much more attention to the quality of life students and families endure. The more their parents and the students themselves are employed, the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Medical Procedures and Tests, Colleges and Universities, Research, Poverty
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Area schools use different philosophies when it comes to Advanced Placement tests
Baltimore County has come a long way since the 1992-1993 school year when only about 2 percent of public school students took an advanced placement (AP) exam.
In 2011, 2,626 of the 7,175 (36.6 percent) students took at least one AP exam, according to a...Tags: Catonsville, High Schools, Colleges and Universities, Schools, Public Schools
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Hopkins, Morgan take reins of city school
For decades, tensions have brewed between residents of the city's Middle East community and neighboring Johns Hopkins institutions, as generations watched its prosperous past fade to blight while Hopkins continued to build its august future.
But on the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Hospitals and Clinics, Morgan State University, Colleges and Universities, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Obama willing to waive education targets
President Barack Obama is prepared to offer states that have embraced his administration's key education reform initiatives — including Maryland — a break from the most rigid requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, senior officials...Tags: Bowie, Tea Party Movement, Democratic Party, Teaching and Learning, Standards
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Educators say Obama plan relieves stress
It didn't matter whether they worked at a small city elementary school or a large, suburban middle school. Educators said Friday that President Obama's decision to lift the increasingly rigorous targets of the No Child Left Behind law would mean less...Tags: Catonsville, Nobel Prize Awards, Regional Authority, Bowie, Executive Branch
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Obama keeps the spirit of NCLB alive
When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2003, it was hailed as a major breakthrough toward improving American public education and giving the nation's young people the tools they needed to compete successfully in a global marketplace.
The...Tags: Arne Duncan, Teaching and Learning, George Bush, Academic Progress, Justice System
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