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Core standards aren’t ‘Common’ knowledge
Most Americans don’t know the first thing about the Common Core State Standards, according to a recent Gallup poll, even though most public schools across the country will launch these new learning...
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The University of Baltimore has renamed its School of Communications Design in honor of a family that made a $1.5 million donation to the school, officials announced Tuesday. The Klein Family School of...
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Raters of the liberal arts
The new college and university rankings from U.S. News & World Report are out. And after you have checked on where your alma mater stands (mine is at No. 18 among regional universities), you should...
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Tom Clancy’s local ties
Tom Clancy’s 1969 Loyola College yearbook photo. (Courtesy Loyola Maryland University) Tom Clancy, the best-selling author who died Tuesday in Baltimore, had many well-documented local ties. Here are...
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Stevenson discounts tuition for hospital employees
Employees at Medstar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore will now get a 20 percent discount on tuition for courses in Stevenson University’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies. Stevenson...
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Site calls University of Maryland underrated for entrepreneurship
Despite high rankings for entrepreneurship from various media outlets, one site says the University of Maryland is highly underrated. PandoDaily, which aims to be “the site-of-record for that startup...
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Appealing to students’ stomachs – and consciences?
When Johns Hopkins University pledged to buy more local, sustainable food, part of officials’ rationale for doing so was that it could encourage other schools to follow suit. As a powerhouse university...
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Strawberry milk: Is nothing sacred?
No more strawberry milk in Montgomery County school cafeterias? How can that be? Marla R. Caplon, who apparently makes the big decisions on what you can and can’t put on your trays, told the Washington...
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Health care industry has been eating its spinach
Health care is the only major industry in Maryland with a workforce that increased consistently every year for the past 12 years (with the exception of a few quarters in which employment was steady or...
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It can pay, to be Ronald J.
The president of Johns Hopkins University was the only head of a private college in Maryland to earn more than $1 million in total compensation in 2011, according to data compiled and released a few...
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