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Maryland is doing a terrible job teaching our children the language that’s now driving the economy: computer code.

This June, Wilde Lake High School alternative learning program teacher Charlie Shoemaker said he will conclude his journey, leaving behind a bridge to success that he helped create for all students.

The Harford County Board of Education approved a $446 million operating budget for the school system Monday, although 36 teaching positions had to be eliminated in order to get there, along with other spending reductions.

Winters Mill High School senior David Ridgely took advantage of the school's resources to lay the foundation for his future teaching career.

The Baltimore Teachers Union has filed a second grievance over the layoff of teachers and aides last week, saying city schools administrators failed to provide required notice that would allow union leaders to try and save the jobs.

Harford County Public Schools and the teachers union have reached a settlement agreement on funding teacher salary steps and a COLA for the next fiscal year as the school board reconciles its budget.

On June 2, more than 80 volunteers, including employees from local businesses, parents, teachers and students, harnessed their gardening skills to build an outdoor classroom in the front schoolyard at Laurel Elementary School.

Rather than making up the budget short-fall on the backs of Baltimore City school employees — those hard-working men and women who help make the real difference in the lives of our young people — perhaps it's time to rethink where the blame truly lies for the budget issues and hold those in power more accountable.

Baltimore city school administrators will layoff 115 people Thursday, including 21 people who work as librarians or school counselors and 24 assistant principals, the district has announced.

Jean T. Schreier, 76, a retired Anne Arundel County Community College educator and dean, died May 27 from cancer.

Parents, educators, legislators and students all seem to agree — albeit sometimes for different reasons — that there is far too much time spent on taking tests

New interim superintendent says she wants the permanent job

Laurel Elementary will be the site of a "big dig" on Friday, June 2 to install two outdoor classrooms and vegetable and perennial gardens on its campus on Montgomery Street. The project is the fruit of a recently awarded partnership with REAL School Gardens, which funds learning gardens and teacher training at partner schools around the country.

Towson High School teacher Scott Olson was scrolling Facebook last week when a post from another Baltimore County Public Schools teacher caught his eye.

Harford County teachers, parents and students made their budget priorities clear to the Board of Education Monday evening as board members and school system officials prepare their final version of the fiscal 2018 budget.

Kim Johnson, of South Carroll High School, was named Maryland School Librarian of the Year.

After 14 months of negotiations, Baltimore's school board and teachers union are at an impass in negotiations and have asked that a mediator take over.

An innovative union contract designed to tie pay to performance has given Baltimore City's teachers some of the best salaries in the state, but it is also expensive for the system.

Abbottston Elementary School is so small that when a boy who misbehaved in the cafeteria this month was sent to the office, the person who kept a watchful eye

Foose's departure may drop the level of acrimony in Howard but the impact on public education is less clear

When the 2017-2018 school year begins at the John Carroll School in Bel Air, it will be a bit different from this year. President Richard O'Hara, who has been at the school for 10 years, is retiring at the end of June, and a new principal, Tom Durkin, begins his tenure leading the Patriots in mid-June.

Consul Cenap Kiratli dies

Embattled Howard County schools superintendent Renee Foose has told some principals and executive staff that she will resign immediately, sources told The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday.

The 2017 Carroll County Teacher of the Year will be named Thursday.

Carl F. Christ, 93, a noted Johns Hopkins University economist, died Friday.

In May of 1968, my future wife and I received our bachelor's degrees from what was then Towson State College, becoming the first in each of our families to do so. We walked away from campus carrying a diploma — and zero student debt. We were part of a "pledge to teach" tuition waiver program through which we agreed to teach for two years in a public school in Maryland and were, in exchange, given a four-year, free education. Maryland no longer has such a program, but it seems to me that

The Baltimore County school board has to make many decisions about the leadership and future of the system in the wake of Dallas Dance's resignation as superintendent.

Issues concerning Carroll County public schools have appeared in this newspaper's headlines quite often recently. The problems of today aren't very different

President Donald Trump's decision to review a foreign worker visa program to ensure jobs are "offered to American workers first" has caused uncertainty for urban school districts such as Baltimore's that have long relied on teachers from overseas to augment their staff.

Legends of Learning, an education technology company in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., has raised $9 million to expand the reach of its game-based learning program.

Next Baltimore County schools chief should be more experienced, less prone to abrupt decision making

James P. Farrier Jr., a retired Towson High School coach and teacher, died April 8. He was 85.

Recently in my IB History of the Americas class I held a discussion on U.S. and Canadian domestic policies during the Cold War. I listened as my students debated using textual evidence, posing as experts on the subject. On one end of the room was Carolyn, a half-Asian, half-white 17-year-old, the daughter of a doctor, who seemed ready to take on the world. And on the other end of the room was Shaiquan, a black 17-year-old boy, with gold fronts in his mouth, who had talked to me about how City

The chance that a public school student will have a black teacher is not very good. Only 18 percent of the nation's teaching workforce is a person of color.

The Outstanding Teacher Awards recognize CCPS teachers who "represent excellence in the teaching profession."

Twenty years ago, public education in Baltimore and this New England capital had much in common.

Tens of thousands of minority students, living in p

A prominent scholar at the University of Iowa College of Education will become the new dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education on Aug. 1

Key to improving city schools is not privatization but addressing the needs of students

Gov. Larry Hogan is pledging to veto a bill moving through the General Assembly that would prevent the state from enacting controversial reforms for struggling schools that have been championed by the Republican and members of the state school board.

Gilbert O. Ogonji, a former longtime Coppin State University professor and department head, died on March 13. He was 77.

At a Dulaney High School Parent Teacher Student Association meeting March 16 members discussed options to address the school's facility needs after a recent board decision to reject a multi-million renovation.

Carroll County Public Schools has released the list of teachers nominated for Outstanding Teacher Awards. There were 397 educators nominated. The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce will select eight finalists this month, who become candidates for the Carroll County Teacher of the Year.

Jeff Sanford went to the debate at the high school cafeteria with an open mind.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh on Thursday lambasted the city elementary school teachers who called in sick en masse last month to protest looming school budget cuts and layoffs.

In the family's first published children's book, "Why Our Teacher Wears Yellow," the father-daughter team brings attention to "transportation teachers" through four characters, who join Roodee the school bus in imaginative adventures on their way to School #224.

How can teachers get good behavior by encouraging the bad?

Could model students one day drop out of school, develop a drug or alcohol addiction or become violent as some students clearly do? Data collected over three decades suggests they won't, even as adults.

Minor league players often must work to supplement their incomes in the offseason while continuing to grind through their baseball career.

Baltimore needs great schools to be a great economic engine

The children of Baltimore City do not have time to wait for lawmakers to decide if they are going to fill the $129 million funding gap.