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Getting a Jump Start on Testing (06 March 10:30) |
| Watching TV isn't just a pastime for William Wirt Middle School students. For an hour every Thursday, that's how their teachers prepare them for this month's Maryland School Assessment test... |
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For High School Students, Some Justice (06 March 10:30) |
| One of the perks of being a student in the Washington region is that the subjects you study are always at hand. The White House is a Metro ride away, the neighbor down the street might be a... |
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Tight Budget Puts Chesapeake Cleanup at Risk, Governor Says (06 March 10:30) |
| Gov. Martin O'Malley said mounting budget pressure could jeopardize part of the initial $50 million that the state is planning to allocate to a trust fund to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, ev... |
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Sheriff's Campaign Fundraiser Draws Some Notable Guests (06 March 10:30) |
| Sheriff Michael Jackson (D) has not officially declared that he is running for county executive in 2010, but, like numerous other politicos eyeing the spot, he's fundraising for the possibi... |
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NAACP Fight Ends In Ousting Of Leader (06 March 10:30) |
| A long battle among leaders of the Anne Arundel NAACP branch has ended with the president's ouster and the board appealing for community help in rebuilding the organization. |
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Black History Assignment Exceeds Expectations (06 March 10:30) |
| An oral history project produced by students at Henry E. Lackey High School will become part of Charles County's 350th anniversary celebration and be used in future classes to teach student... |
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Beyond Textbooks, D.C. Schools Face a Host of Social Needs (05 March 10:30) |
| On the third floor at Johnson Middle School in Southeast Washington, behind a wood door, sits an unlikely tool in the District's effort to uncover neglect and abuse. |
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Bill Targets Uncertainty Over Md. College Tuition (05 March 10:30) |
| The daughter of a factory worker and a homemaker in a rural Illinois town, Heather R. Mizeur was the first in her family to attend college. She paid her own way through school, relying on a... |
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Drop in Applications Tests D.C. Area Private Schools (05 March 10:30) |
| A shrinking pool of younger students, a souring economy and rising tuition -- approaching $30,000 at several schools -- have resulted in a drop in applications at some Washington area priva... |
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Pilot Plan for Incentive Pay Unveiled (05 March 10:30) |
| Prince George's County education and labor leaders unveiled a much-anticipated pilot program yesterday that will offer teachers and administrators at 12 schools incentive pay for good perfo... |
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UDC Is a School to Retool (05 March 10:30) |
| The District of Columbia has lots of problems, but at the root of many of them is this one: that, despite a booming regional economy for most of the past 15 years, unemployment has remained... |
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12 Pr. George's Schools to Offer Extra Pay for Good Work (04 March 10:52) |
| Prince George's County education and labor leaders unveiled a long-awaited pilot program this morning that will offer teachers and administrators at 12 schools incentive pay for good work p... |
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Black Residents Record Memories (04 March 10:30) |
| When the high school juniors and seniors in Laura Kick's class began talking four months ago about African American life in Southern Maryland, most did not imagine they would go on to devel... |
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Life Lesson Tests Students' Gag Reflex (04 March 10:30) |
| As punishments go, the "educational sanction" that officials at the University of Maryland at College Park placed on a group of dorm residents turned out to be quite foul. |
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D.C.'s Charter Schools On the Outside Wanting In (04 March 10:30) |
| Antwan Lowry expects to feel a little uncomfortable tonight sitting in the stands at Verizon Center. Three days ago, he clutched a trophy that said he and his teammates from Booker T. Washi... |
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Credit Crisis May Make College Loans More Costly (03 March 10:30) |
| Many college students across the nation will begin to see higher costs for loans this spring, while others will be turned away by banks altogether as the credit crisis roiling the U.S. econ... |
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Some Professors Could Use a Class in Marketing (03 March 10:30) |
| Julie Kirsch could have called her philosophy course at Marymount University in Arlington County, well, philosophy. Dozens of college catalogues are filled with History of Philosophy, Logic... |
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Dragsters Turn Out for Legal Racing (03 March 10:30) |
| Sonny Beatley's 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II awakened from its rest with a deep bearlike growl, the kind that makes bones rattle. |
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Must-Take Courses (03 March 10:30) |
| What courses should be required for every U.S. college student? Everyone has a different idea of what students need to know to be competitive in the 21st century. |
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Balancing Academic Tradition and Skills Employers Demand (03 March 10:30) |
| While designing a new core curriculum at Virginia Commonwealth University to help graduates thrive in the 21st century, Vice Provost Joseph Marolla seized on an old standard to ensure its s... |
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Exhibit Preserves Pursuit Of Liberty (02 March 10:30) |
| An exhibit of hundreds of rare artifacts unearthed in Annapolis over the past 27 years shows that the quest for freedom by African Americans is as much a part of the city's history as the f... |
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Contest Puts Gears in Motion for Engineering (02 March 10:30) |
| Selling high-schoolers on engineering careers -- and by natural extension, math and science courses -- can be as difficult as convincing them of the virtues of abstinence and not dancing to... |
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Controversial Ruling May Lead to New Scrutiny (02 March 10:30) |
| Even some of the Fairfax County School Board members who voted last week to redraw attendance zones for five western county high schools acknowledged that it was an imperfect plan born from... |
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Dorm Gossip Turns Slimy on the Internet (02 March 10:30) |
| T.J. Bateman had never heard of JuicyCampus.com until a friend told him he had been discussed on the Web site, which urges college students nationwide to "give us the juice." Someone wrote,... |
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Extra! Extra! Indeed (02 March 10:30) |
| Seen from the front, the large stone tablet affixed to the Newseum building on Pennsylvania Avenue looks like a piece of newsprint. It is 74 feet high, emblazoned with the 45 words of the F... |
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Toys for Tots to Expand Mission With Children's Literacy Campaign (02 March 10:30) |
| For 61 years, Toys for Tots has delivered Christmas presents to millions of needy children across the nation. Now, the Virginia-based charity is opening a new chapter in its mission with th... |
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Plan Aired To Root Out D.C. Students' Problems (01 March 10:30) |
| Troubled D.C. public school students will get intensive intervention services -- involving support for their families, behavior management strategies and academic help -- in a forthcoming p... |
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Northwestern: No Evidence of Made-Up Quotes (01 March 10:30) |
| CHICAGO, Feb. 29 -- The dean of Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism was cleared Friday by the provost of making up quotes from unidentified students for use in... |
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Tickets to GWU's Ballgame Limited Mainly to University (01 March 10:30) |
| Tickets to the first event at the Nationals' new stadium, a baseball game between George Washington and St. Joseph's universities, will be limited primarily to GWU students, staff and facul... |
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Fairfax School Board Approves Boundary Redesign (29 February 10:30) |
| The Fairfax County School Board approved new attendance boundaries last night for several high schools in the western part of the county, reshaping the school pipeline for thousands of stud... |
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School Budget Funds Raises, Parent Liaisons (29 February 10:30) |
| The Prince George's County Board of Education adopted a $1.68 billion budget proposal yesterday that added funding to negotiate with labor unions over raises and threw out planned cutbacks ... |
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School Board Approves Boundary Redesign (29 February 10:30) |
| The Fairfax County School Board approved new attendance boundaries last night for several high schools in the western part of the county, reshaping the school pipeline for thousands of stud... |
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Closings, Consolidation Will Cost $110 Million (29 February 10:30) |
| The cost of closing 23 D.C. schools and making repairs to other school buildings that will receive students will be at least $110 million, school maintenance and construction officials said... |
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Many Fire, Health Problems at D.C. Schools Fixed, Fenty Says (29 February 12:10) |
| Many of the D.C. schools' fire and health code violations have been corrected, and remaining problems will be addressed in the coming months, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Allan Y. Lew, chief o... |
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Vote on School Zones in Fairfax Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor (28 February 10:30) |
| Like many fastidious school shoppers, Carly Mannava planned ahead. She bought a map of Fairfax County high school attendance zones, combed through data on the Internet and pushed her twin s... |
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Parents Protest Plan for School Closures (28 February 10:30) |
| Angry parents from two D.C. elementary schools and two middle schools sounded off last night to Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee about why she should not close their underenrolled buildi... |
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Spingarn Coach Provides Life's Best Playbook (28 February 10:30) |
| Coach John Wood, 67, is not sure how many of the approximately 150 Spingarn basketball players he coached between 1972 and 1985 were growing up without a father in the home. |
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Video Setup Tears Down Class Walls (28 February 10:30) |
| Two dozen fifth-graders watched intently as a musical trio explained the basics of jazz on a big screen at Potowmack Elementary School this week. Chins in hands, they appeared engaged in an... |
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Engineering A Bridge To Careers (28 February 10:30) |
| The hallway was a miniature construction site, with piles of steel, rubber mallets, and nuts and bolts scattered across the floor. The six high school students were huddled in a circle, con... |
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School Bus Overturns in Pr. George's (28 February 10:30) |
| School bus 1156 was going too fast. That much was clear to the 44 students heading to William Wirt Middle School in the Riverdale area just before 9 a.m. yesterday. |
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Vote on School Zones Creates Schisms in Western Fairfax (28 February 10:30) |
| Like many fastidious school shoppers, Carly Mannava planned ahead. She bought a map of Fairfax County high school attendance zones, combed through data on the Internet and pushed her twin s... |
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Judge Denies Parents' Plea to Force Rhee to Release Spending Plan (28 February 10:30) |
| A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that the public has no right to see the District's education spending plan for the coming fiscal year until Mayor Adrian M. Fenty submits it to t... |
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Special-Ed Getting New Computer System, Staff (27 February 10:30) |
| The District school system plans to spend $4.3 million on a computer system designed to keep track of special education students' academic life, replacing several systems plagued by bad dat... |
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After Death, Parents Want School Sanitized (27 February 10:30) |
| Some parents at Bunker Hill Elementary School in Northeast Washington are demanding that the D.C. Health Department sanitize the building for possible staph contamination after the death of... |
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In a Va. Lab, Forging Links To Speed Cancer Advances (27 February 10:30) |
| The tiny pieces of tumor, cut from 51 Italian cancer patients, arrived at a suburban Washington laboratory in boxes packed with dry ice. |
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D.C. to Give Special Education Program New Data System, More Staff (27 February 01:14) |
| An attempt to upgrade the District's troubled special education program will give it a new computer system and additional case management workers, State Superintendent of Education Deborah ... |
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Nearby Schools, Worlds Apart (26 February 10:30) |
| Broad Acres and Adelphi elementary schools sit nine-tenths of a mile apart. The boundary that separates them cuts through a horseshoe-shaped apartment complex off New Hampshire Avenue that ... |
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Outside Help for Schools Possible (26 February 10:30) |
| D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee are seeking educational management firms or universities to possibly run some or all 27 schools whose students chronically... |
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Teacher Held in Attempted Sexual Assault (26 February 10:30) |
| A Manassas school band teacher has been charged with trying to sexually assault a 13-year-old girl, authorities said yesterday. |
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Talks Underway with Firms to Run Some D.C. Schools, Rhee Says (26 February 01:38) |
| Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced today that they are in preliminary talks with education management firms to run some or all of the 27 schools who... |
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