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Three books about the state of our colleges
You've mailed the big tuition check and packed your kid off to college, but will you and your offspring get your money's worth? Here are three books that provide some answers.
Education - Shopping - Books - Colleges and Universities - Used and Rare Teacher used derogatory terms in class lesson at Suitland middle school
A history class in Prince George's County got an unexpected lesson this week.
Middle school - Education - K through 12 - Educators - Personal and Class Pages D.C. school to name hallway in honor of retired custodian
Some men get buildings named after them; others, streets. Ron Hillyer is getting a hallway.
United States - Education - Honor Societies - Student - Texas Race to the Top grants go to groups developing new student assessment strategies
The federal government awarded $330 million Thursday to two groups that are developing new student assessment systems for the District, Maryland and dozens of other states in an effort to upgrade their much-maligned standardized tests.
Education - Educational - Social Sciences - United States - testing D.C. agency's handling of grant money labeled deficient in audit
The D.C. government could not properly account for how it spent almost $325,000 in federal grant money intended to enhance state and local law enforcement, according to an audit report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Justice Department.
Grant - Business - United States - Audit - Washington Transfers let Alexandria cap class sizes
When Sheena Rose went to register her son for kindergarten at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School , she was told there was no room. She was given a choice of three schools that her son would have to ride a bus to attend.
Alexandria - Egypt - Africa - Shopping - Business After decades at Coolidge High, D.C. Youth Orchestra Program moves to Eastern
The D.C. Youth Orchestra Program has operated for nearly a half-century at Coolidge High School in Northwest. Last month, the nonprofit music program moved a few miles south to Eastern High School in Northeast.
United States - People - Calvin Coolidge - Arts and Entertainment - Youth Montgomery students get new digs
Jeannie Kauffman and her three children represent two distinct generations of Garrett Park Elementary schoolers. Kauffman attended the school as did her daughter, Ashley, 13, who is now a seventh-grader at Pyle Middle School.
United States - Counties - Montgomery - Maryland - Time Warner Cable St. Mary's officials seek state help to build elementary school
Spurred by increasing elementary school enrollment, officials in St. Mary's County are preparing a request for state assistance to construct another elementary school.
Elementary school - United States - Counties - Saint Mary - Maryland Poll: Polarizing D.C. schools chief Rhee helps, hurts Fenty among Democrats
A Washington Post poll in August found that the D.C. schools chancellor, the public face and voice for the mayor's cornerstone issue, is such a divisive figure that politically she is a virtual wash.
Democratic - AdrianFenty - United States - Politics - Parties Maryland schools battle with limited funding and space as enrollment grows
More than 200,000 Maryland students streamed back to crowded classrooms Monday as school systems dealt with growth but little money to hire more teachers.
Maryland - United States - Politics - Houston - Greivis Vasquez More would-be interns paying thousands to land a coveted spot
Each year, thousands of college students descend on Washington for unpaid internships. It can be a nerve-racking process: sending out résumés, trying to make contacts, interviewing again and again. Increasingly, many of them are finding an alternative: paying thousands of dollars to a placement company for a guaranteed spot.
United States - Earth Sciences - Land Surveying - Geomatics - Surveyors UDC opens its first student housing with an eye to a livelier campus
The University of the District of Columbia fall semester began last week, and that meant first-day-of-class prepping in the college's first-ever dorm.
Dormitory - United States - Education - Health - Colleges and Universities D.C. schools' performance should not be measured by focusing on achievement gap
The D.C. mayoral race is deeply split on most issues, but everyone agrees on one thing: We must reduce the achievement gap between minority and white students. It is too bad, then, that the gap is such a mindless measure of school progress.
Education - Achievement gap in the United States - United States - School district - India Maryland students head back to school
More than 200,000 Maryland students are returning to school Monday morning, including in Montgomery County, the state's largest school system. It is the beginning of what will be a pivotal year for the district, and parents said they hoped to be included in decisions about a new leader for their ...
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