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As changes loom, a look inside a reading classroom
In a sixth-grade reading classroom at Dunloggin Middle School in Ellicott City on Tuesday, teacher Amy Monachino guided her students through a chapter in Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars."
Books on the Holocaust lined the chalkboard. But the only book up...Tags: Language, Students, Language, Genes and Chromosomes, Ellicott City
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HCC study-abroad program will tour Normandy
Howard Community College professor Fred Campbell is about to take his third group of students to the site of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II, with the hope that, like students before them, the group with return with a perspective of...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Germany, Teaching and Learning, Howard Community College
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Finalists for One Maryland One Book program
I spent part of the day at the offices of the Maryland Humanities Council, as part of the group that selects the book for the One Maryland One Book reading program. (Is there anyything better than a good discussion about books?) The group of about a dozen... -
Lessons learned in Iraq, Rwanda
Letter writer Paul R. Schlitz Jr. can't seem to grasp the fact that an acknowledgment of Iraq's potential to harbor weapons of mass destruction doesn't necessarily indicate current agreement with the decision to invade, nor does it require someone to...Tags: Rwanda, Severna Park, Saddam Hussein, Wars and Interventions, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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The promise of technology in the classroom
It's getting harder for a public school teacher to reach excellence. By "excellence," I mean being responsible for helping each student significantly develop his or her knowledge or learning capacity. This increased difficulty is not the fault of...Tags: Students, Public Schools, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Schools
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Edwards offers resolution on Fla. congressman's Nazi comment
(Dec. 20) Rep. Donna F. Edwards offered a resolution on the House floor Tuesday that would disapprove of Florida GOP Rep. Allen West for telling reporters recently that Nazi propagandists would be proud of the Democrats’ “propaganda machine.&...Tags: Donna F. Edwards, Republican Party, Joseph Goebbels, Democratic Party, Allen West
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'Help' yourself to some rich cinema soul food
Nothing leaves movie-lovers feeling more nourished and content than a good drama. Watching a finely observed human struggle played out on screen is like cinema soul food, providing sustenance through its vital new connection to the world.
Indeed, the...Tags: Movies, Paul Rudd, Rupert Friend, 13 (movie), Maria Bello
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Md. Holocaust survivors take rail fight to Congress
It wasn't until Ellen Lightman began to take care of her mother in her final years that she learned that the frail woman used her nightly prayers to whisper words of their family's painful past.
"Every night, she prayed that the last few seconds of her...Tags: C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Railway Transportation, Trials, Litigation, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Freedom Ride revisited: Looking forward, but seeing the past in a mirror
We are on the 2011 Student Freedom Riders bus rolling toward Augusta, Ga., watching "The Murder of Emmett Till," a PBS documentary on the savage 1955 lynching of a black boy in the nothing town of Money, Miss. On the old newsreel footage, white person...Tags: Documentary (genre), Emmett Till, Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment, Murder
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Roots research: Columbia's Family History Center
If the recent TV program “Who Do You Think You Are?” piques your interest into researching your ancestry, you’re not alone.
The Family History Center in Ellicott City has seen an increase in the number of people doing just that —...Tags: History, Ellicott City, Howard Community College, Orange County Regional History Center, Research
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'Living history' is making a comeback at some Maryland museums
In the shadow of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, John Wilkes Booth will tell anyone who'll listen just why that tyrant had to be assassinated.
Supporting himself on a wooden crutch, a decidedly agitated Booth, his voice rising to match the fierceness in his...Tags: Civil Unrest, Harriet Tubman, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tourism and Leisure, Wars and Interventions
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The Interview: Aaron Greenfield, attorney for Holocaust survivors and families
Baltimore attorney Aaron Greenfield's work representing Holocaust survivors and their families earned him an invitation last month to join a special committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Greenfield, special counsel in the corporate practice...Tags: Contracts, Railway Transportation, Continuing Education, Judges, Commuting
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