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Education
Apr 16 2013 - 9:19am
Baltimore is home to one of the oldest, most storied high school rivalries in the nation: City College versus Polytechnic Institute, City versus Poly! And Baltimore has one of the richest traditions of high school debate in the nation. Midday brings the rivalry to radio with a live on-air deba...
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Apr 11 2013 - 4:44am
By day he teaches science at The Park School on Old Court Road. But on some nights, Rich Espey puts on his theater hat as an actor and playwright on stages in Baltimore and surrounding areas. Last week, the play, which won the Baltimore Playwrights Festival’s best play award last year, opened at Venus Theater in Laurel. It runs through April 28.
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Apr 5 2013 - 12:25pm
On The Lines Between Us, we look into the value of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. We talk to Morgan State professor Ray Winbush, Delegate Aisha Braveboy and formber HBCU student Antonio Johnson. Then, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post, Jed Dietz of the Maryland Fil...
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Apr 5 2013 - 9:04am
April 5, 2013About 40 percent of African-American students in Maryland’s public four-year colleges attend one of the state’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs – Morgan State University, Coppin State, Bowie State and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore.HBCUs say t...
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Mar 28 2013 - 3:07pm
Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance has laid out ambitious goals for his system; a graduating class of all bilingual students within 10 years and vastly increased use of digital learning tools. Education leaders say the goals are exciting, but they worry about the costs. WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn reports.
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Mar 27 2013 - 10:16am
March 27, 2013OrchKids is a music education program for children from pre-kindergarten through the 7th grade that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra began 5 years ago. The OrchKids approach is modeled on a national program in Venezuela known as “El Sistema.” The system in Venezue...
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Mar 21 2013 - 4:44am
Baltimore city’s Head Start program stands to lose more than $1.5 million in federal funding if sequestration cuts remain in effect. That translates into 200 fewer Head Start slots for children. In this report, WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn talks to parents and officials about the looming cuts for Head Start, a program created in 1965 to assist impoverished families.
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Mar 15 2013 - 6:45am
Baltimore city school officials say the number of homeless students enrolled in the district so far, 1,900, is higher than it was last year at this time. What’s just as worrisome for officials is that 44 percent of those students are chronically absent from school. In this installment of “Empty Desks: The Effects of Chronic Absenteeism,” WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn reports on the obstacles homeless students face getting to school.
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Mar 5 2013 - 6:19pm
With no announcements of a deal on the federal budget, local officials are wondering how the $85 billion in required sequestration cuts will affect them. Maryland stands to lose more than $14 million in federal funds this year alone in primary and secondary education funds. As WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn reports, local education officials are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.
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Mar 1 2013 - 5:55am
In Maryland, more than 85 thousand students miss a month or more of school annually, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. About 17,000 of those students live in Baltimore city. Over the course of this year, WYPR will air a series of reports exploring the causes and effects of chronic absenteeism and solutions being explored by city and county officials. WYPR’s Gwendolyn Glenn has this overview in the first report of our series: Empty Desks: The Effects of Chronic Absenteeism.
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Friday, May 24, 2013 - 5:02am
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