Maryland State Department of Education

February 19, 2013

During last week’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called for the biggest expansion of early childhood education in decades. How would his proposal affect early childhood education in Maryland?

Maryland's new state superintendent of schools, Lillian Lowery, has been on the job three months.  We ask her about new teacher evaluations, as well as the new common core curriculum being implemented this year.

J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the Strand Theater Company's production of "Mother, May I." And no, she did not need to ask permission to do so.

A cellist mourns the dead in a city under siege in this year's One Maryland One Book pick.