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For students at High Road Academy, the lazy, hazy days of July are not the time for spending endless hours at the local swimming pool, riding a bike or learning new skills at day camp.

Baltimore principals will be required to take extra steps before suspending 4- and 5-year-olds under a new policy that seeks to curb the practice of kicking the youngest students out of school.

Marriotts Ridge High School senior Tianhao Gao approached taking the SAT with one primary directive: score well enough to prevent from taking it a second time.

The Obama administration announced Friday it is developing new rules aimed at improving the quality of education by focusing on the training that teachers receive before they enter the classroom — an idea that met with cautious support and a bevy of questions from Maryland's leading teacher colleges.

Carroll County school one of only two in Maryland to receive honor

The principal of Frederick Douglass High School pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing nearly $2 million from the federal government while overseeing a day care in Georgia for needy children.

Maryland is among a handful of states that the U.S. Department of Education believes has faced several challenges in fulfilling its $250 million promise to overhaul the way it teaches students and evaluates educators.

Maryland schools among those universities clarifying application instructions to ensure they aren't violating federal law by requiring extra forms to determine financial aid eligibility

School discipline has been a long-standing problem

Schools' disciplinary policies have been hijacked by leftists

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland alleged this week that more than 100 universities, including Goucher College and Loyola University Maryland, are violating federal law by requiring applicants to fill out extra forms that determine their eligibility for financial aid.

With teachers and superintendents across the state in favor of a one-year moratorium in giving the Maryland School Assessments, two Montgomery County legislators are introducing bills to put a halt to the testing in March.

Current school discipline practices exclude children from school -- and do so in a discriminatory way. We must embrace both the federal recommendations and the new Maryland school discipline regulations if we are to fulfill the civil rights of all Maryland's children to fair treatment and to an education.

Frederick Douglass High School will host U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday, where the officials will make and announcement and discuss school discipline.

Stubbornly high poverty rates and increasing income inequality have turned upside down the long-held belief of education being a pathway to the middle class.

While Carroll County students were leaving school Friday and beginning their weekend, Westminster High School junior Jeremy Price was discussing college affordability and ratings with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

The darling of anti-school reformers, Diane Ravitch intensifies the education wars to the detriment of students.

Implementing the Common Core State Standards in Prince George's County and Laurel schools.

The Howard County Public School System started rolling out the Common Core before it was mandated, but while it has a jump on other jurisdictions in the state, there was still a time crunch in getting it implemented, and it being implemented well.

Join the St. Peter's Episcopal Preschool community on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., to commemorate the school's 40th anniversary with an Autumn Celebration.

During her sophomore year at Oakland Mills High School, Alexa Kanakry spent an hour every Thursday sorting food and filling 16 backpacks for Blessings in a Backpack, a nonprofit that provides food for elementary-age students during the school year.

Maryland's state board said Tuesday it has no intention of calling a one-year halt to state testing, despite concerns from the state's superintendents and teachers union.

Eleven Maryland schools have earned a prestigious 2013 National Blue Ribbon designation, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced Tuesday.