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Booker T. Washington studied and later taught at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) before going on to lead Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University).
Booker T. Washington studied and later taught at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) before going on to lead Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University).
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Ida Elaine Robinson, city teacher
Ida Elaine Robinson, a retired teacher who worked for more than 30 years at a Northwest Baltimore elementary school, died of complications of kidney failure March 14 at Sinai Hospital. She was 77.
She was born Ida Elaine Page at her parents' Robert...Tags: Catonsville, Roman Catholicism, Teachers, Coppin State University, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey)
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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: Johns Hopkins University, Students, New York City, Graduation, Teachers
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Baseball's popularity was on the rise in 1911
100 Years Ago A Look back at 1911 • Baseball was getting very popular, but airplanes were still thought of as just for racing and sport. • Popular books in early 1900s were "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," by Frank Baum, "Up From Slavery,"...Tags: Ellicott City, Jack London, Cancer, Flu, Pneumonia
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Services held for educators who died in house fire
The lives of two retired Baltimore educators were remembered by family, friends and former students Wednesday evening on the campus of the college they both attended a half-century ago. The funeral for Donald Ernest Lee Patterson Sr., 77, and Jennye...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, Teachers, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Teaching and Learning
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Science teacher takes measure of marathons
Nothing stops David Berdan from his daily running regimen.
Either in between, before or after teaching science to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at Garrison Forest School, Berdan is likely to be wearing out another pair of running shoes as he takes a...Tags: Track and Field, Science, Entertainment Events, Hospitals and Clinics, Liberty Bell
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Occupy Wall Street: The revolution will be puppeted
Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine The Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public-school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Occupy Wall Street, New York City, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements
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Catonsville resident starts Teach for America
In her kindergarten class 17 years ago, Jackie Kearney drew a picture of what she wanted to be when she grew up.
The Catonsville resident drew a teacher.
This year, that prophesy is a reality as Kearney begin teaching math at Booker T. Washington Middle...Tags: Graduation, Colleges and Universities, Catonsville, Teaching and Learning, File Sharing
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District 9: Abigail Breiseth
1. Please describe your educational and professional background and how it has prepared you to serve on the City Council.
I believe the 9th needs the combination of skills that I as a teacher bring to the table. It needs understanding, inspiration, and...Tags: Regional Authority, Employment, Credit and Debt, Business, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Parents blame politics as Severna Park High goes without fixes
They had already been through the public testimony, the email campaigns and, they thought, the political wrangling. Severna Park High School was on track to receive a nearly $107 million to rebuild one of Anne Arundel County's highest-performing schools...Tags: Chicago Hotels, High School Sports, Howard County, Renovation, Budgets and Budgeting
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Walking at Western commencement
Baltimore school officials were wise to suspend the rule stating that only Western High School students accepted at four-year colleges could participate in this year's graduation ceremonies. Given that some Western students' college application efforts...Tags: High School Sports, Graduation, Schools, Coppin State University, Colleges and Universities
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Turn it around
The day Andrés Alonso dreaded came the Friday before Thanksgiving.
For his first year and a half as Baltimore schools chief, the system was showing unprecedented progress. Four decades of enrollment decline ended. Test scores were their best since the...Tags: Philosophy, Management Change, Teachers, Defense, Annapolis
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A good deed goes bad
Ronald Jackson's bedroom holds the signs of a young, earnest life cut short too soon in Baltimore.
An unboxed computer sits at the foot of his bed -- part of a school project. A news article about a slain middle-school classmate is taped on one wall; a...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Transportation, Assault, Murder, Road Transportation
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