Education

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 debate on three issues: Should Congress ban assault-style weapons? Should colleges stop using scores from the SAT as a factor in the admission of students? Should the state and federal governments spend more than $1 billion to construct the Red Line through Baltimore?

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 Film Festival and our own Tom Hall dicuss the late film critic Roger Ebert.

April 5, 2013

About 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.

Ray Winbush full interview

March 27, 2013

March 1, 2013

The unpaid internship is widely perceived as a necessary—if not sufficient—prerequisite to getting a good-paying white-collar job. The New York Times reported that, in 1992, 17 percent of graduating college students had taken an internship, and 50 percent had in 2008. More recent figures put it even higher.

February 25, 2013

In gentrified city neighborhoods across America, including Baltimore, many middle-class parents face a crucial question: Should we send our kids to a public school, a private school or a charter school -- or should we just move to the suburbs? Where can children get a good education in a racially and economically diverse setting, and how important is that? Education policy expert Michael J. Petrilli faced that question and has written a book about what he calls "The Diverse Schools Dilemma." Petrilli, a former education official under George W.

Almost half of high school graduates do not enroll in college directly. Later in life, these students want a second chance to get an education to ensure their economic future and self-respect in a world with little room for the unskilled and uneducated. Community colleges provide those second chances, but UCLA professor and author Mike Rose argues that not enough of them do it well. Rose is the author of Back to School – Why Everyone Deserves a Chance at Education. 

Almost half of high school graduates do not enroll in college directly. Later in life, these students want a second chance to get an education to ensure their economic future and self-respect in a world with little room for the unskilled and uneducated. Community colleges provide those second chances, but UCLA professor and author Mike Rose argues that not enough of them do it well. Rose is the author of Back to School – Why Everyone Deserves a Chance at Education.