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UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones has entered a drug treatment facility after testing positive for the main metabolite of cocaine.

Common Core online testing is a waste of time and money.

One year after the Maryland State Department of Education identified more than $100 million in technical upgrades needed in schools to be able to administer online tests, many schools don't have wireless Internet access throughout the buildings, and some have only one computer for every 15 students.

Concern over hours in student testing overstates time involved, underestimates benefits accrued

Even as public school systems in Maryland and other states prepare to give longer and more challenging standardized tests this spring, a national debate has erupted over just how many hours students should be tested in a year.

State health officials are monitoring about 100 people who have traveled from Ebola-stricken countries but won't disclose any more information about their condition unless someone tests positive for the deadly virus under a new policy.

The renewed clamor for postponement of Common Core testing provides further evidence of the failure of "top-down" reform in Maryland public schools. Who can forget MSPAP, the State Board of Education's high stakes tests for graduation; and the procrastination in fulfilling the Race to the Top promise that teacher promotions would be related to student performance? What has not been tried is "bottom up" reform.

Although more Maryland students took the SAT in 2014 and average test scores declined statewide, Howard County saw an increase in the average test score along with an increase in the number of students taking the assessment measuring college preparedness.

As more students took the SAT in Maryland last year, scores on the college readiness exam dropped significantly, falling far below the national average for the first time in years.

More than from any other school district in the state, Baltimore students' test scores have pushed them into noncredit remedial courses that they must take before college-level classes, according to new data from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

A change in the November date to take the SAT conflicts with Maryland state field hockey, cross country and soccer championships as well as the 99th annual Gilman-McDonogh football game.

Six Marines from the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion in Parkville teamed up with Central Maryland Rehab and Central Maryland Fitness at the YMCA Hill Family Center in Westminster to host the fourth annual Marine Corps Combat Fitness Test, where civilians are encouraged to see if they are physically fit enough to pass.

Eight Democratic members of Maryland's congressional delegation wrote President Obama Monday urging him to reconsider his administration's plan to allow seismic testing for oil and gas off the Mid-Atlantic coast.

The SAT is a 225-minute race to the finish line encompassing everything schools have been trying to prepare students for since pre-school. It doesn't really test math, writing and reading, but mainly test-taking strategies like process of elimination or lucky guessing.

Harford County students generally did better than their counterparts around the state in the final year of Maryland School Assessment testing administered in the 2013-14 school year.

It will be harder for students to meet the requirements to graduate from Maryland high schools starting next year.

Maryland can put off using test scores to evaluate teachers through the next school year under a waiver to federal law.

Declines in test scores suggest Common Core is the culprit but it's also difficult to know for sure

Maryland student test scores had the largest one year drop since the administration of the Maryland School Assessment began a decade ago, a result of the transition to a new Common Core curriculum, state education leaders said.

After years of holding schools accountable for student test scores, the idea of using those scores to evaluate teachers and determine their pay has become the latest battleground in education across the nation.

Over the last six years, enrollment numbers in Advance Placement, or AP, testing across Harford County Public Schools has increased, but that increase has not necessarily translated more students passing the exams.

Under a new federal accountability system, Maryland is no longer in compliance with the rules governing special education students because the state's schools exempt a high percentage of students from national testing.

The marijuana in those pot brownies isn¿t the only thing that can potentially make consumers sick. The industry and regulators are taking a closer look at how pot-infused edibles are actually made.

Using standard test of basic tasks can help patients stay out of hospital

The public schools in Harford County face starting next school year around $30 million short of what school leaders believe they need but, based on comments from Harford County Council members, it appears unlikely they will get that money.

Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches

While no standardized test can ever truly measure all that a child has learned or can do, the new Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) represents a vast improvement over the Maryland School Assessments (MSA). Both teachers and students are ready for this welcome shift.

While the Supreme Court decision in the Michigan affirmative action case was regrettable, there is still much colleges can do to boost diversity

Incoming city schools CEO Gregory Thornton must make restoring art and music instruction a priority

Flawed school assessments

Harford County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Canavan said she supports localized control of the education system in the county, during her first meeting with Harford's business community since being permanently appointed chief of schools.

The Howard County Education Association Thursday, March 20, released the results of the 2014 job satisfaction survey, showing a decline in confidence in Superintendent Renee Foose and the Howard County Board of Education

Three Bel Air-area Girl Scouts not only observed Monday's meeting of the Harford County Board of Education as part of getting a citizenship badge, they became active participants by telling board members about the difficulties they face as students at elementary schools with fourth-tier busing schedules.

The adults at Marley Elementary School near Glen Burnie are a little worried about what may happen when their students hit the next generation of tests.

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.