Education

May 24 2013 - 6:35am

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Erica L. Green of the Baltimore Sun talk about the search for a new city schools CEO and how the choice will affect more than the new schools construction plan.

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May 20 2013 - 4:45pm

A diagnosis of metastatic cancer is a challenge to live as well as you can, for the time you have left.  Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for couples facing that diagnosis, to help caregivers and patients help each other.  We talk about whether the retreat could be a model for other hos...

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May 20 2013 - 1:34am

Today, Maryland Morning aired a reflection by Bowie State University journalism professor Allissa Richardson about what a hostile interaction at a traditionally white university taught her about the value of historically black institutions. It was part of our series "The Lines Between Us," which rec...

May 20 2013 - 1:12am

May 20, 2013On Friday, Michelle Obama, the first African-American first lady, addressed graduates at Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest historically black institution of higher learning. In this reflection on HBIs that she wrote for “The Lines Between Us,” our project on regional i...

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May 17 2013 - 4:41am

More than 17,000 Baltimore students miss 20 or more days of school a year. Many of these chronically absent students and their parents say transportation is a major reason for their absences. That’s because nearly 30,000 city students use public transportation to get to school. WYPR's Gwendolyn Glenn explores the impact of transportation on school attendance, in this installment of our series "Empty Desks: The Effects of Chronic Absenteeism."

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May 7 2013 - 8:53am

May 07, 2013Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andres Alonso announced yesterday he would leave his position at the end of June. He arrived in Baltimore six years ago from New York City, a reform-minded administrator taking over a troubled school system.Debbie Demery, President of the PTA Council of ...

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May 7 2013 - 5:04am

Baltimore Schools CEO Andrés Alonso surprised many yesterday with the announcement that he's retiring on June 30th. Alonso has lead the city school system for six years, and leaves midway through his second contract to take care of ailing parents and to teach at Harvard. WYPR’s Mary Rose Madden was at North Avenue for the outgoing address.

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Apr 30 2013 - 3:54pm

May 1, 2013Fred Lazarus, who has been the President of MICA since 1978, has announced his intention to retire next year.  No other college president in Maryland has served as long as he has.  Artscape, the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and the Baltimore Design School are a few of th...

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Apr 30 2013 - 4:45am

The first public hearing on Baltimore city schools’ $1.3 billion budget takes place tonight before the school board of commissioners. With fewer federal dollars available for the 2013-2014 school year, the proposed budget calls for some cuts and shifting of resources. WYPR's Gwendolyn Glenn reports.

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Apr 25 2013 - 3:46pm

April 30, 2013How do you understand a neighborhood? You can take a stroll around and see what the homes look like or you can ask people that live there what they think. But, now it’s easier than ever to look at the numbers; the numbers that tell you how walkable it is, how much homes are selling f...

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