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3 hours ago Jerry Weast, superintendent of Montgomery schools, to retire in June
Montgomery County Schools Superintendent Jerry D. Weast announced Tuesday that he will retire in June, ending an 12-year run and initiating an election-year discussion about the future of one of the country's largest and highest-performing school systems.



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15 hours ago D.C. board of education adopts national 'common core' standards for schools
The D.C. State Board of Education on Wednesday adopted new national standards for English and math, joining Maryland and more than two dozen states in a groundbreaking effort to establish common expectations for what students should learn every year from kindergarten through high school.



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15 hours ago Rhee dismisses 241 D.C. teachers; union vows to contest firings
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced Friday that she has fired 241 teachers, including 165 who received poor appraisals under a new evaluation system that for the first time holds some educators accountable for students' standardized test scores.



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15 hours ago JAY MATHEWS
The weekly Jay Mathews education column is on break for a few weeks. But it'll be back next month when school starts.



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15 hours ago Ruling on Arizona immigration law heightens tensions
In Arizona on Wednesday, police chiefs shifted plans, activists recalibrated and public tensions were generally elevated, rather than calmed, after a federal judge blocked key parts of the state's controversial immigration law from taking effect.



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15 hours ago Study: Working mothers not necessarily harmful to child development
A new study finds that babies raised by working mothers don't necessarily suffer cognitive setbacks, an encouraging finding that follows a raft of previous reports suggesting that women with infants were wiser to stay home.



Parenting - Family - Home - Mothers - Psychology
15 hours ago Report finds fraud in for-profit education firms' recruiting
A new government report on recruiting techniques in the for-profit higher education industry finds instances of college officials urging applicants to invent children and to hide their savings as a way to leverage more federal aid.



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15 hours ago D.C. teachers union accuses Rhee of 'playing loose' with numbers on firings
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee garnered big local headlines and national attention July 23 when she announced that she had fired 241 teachers, including 165 who received poor evaluations under a tough new assessment system that for the first time held some educators accountable for stud...


15 hours ago Reading and math scores fall sharply at two KIPP schools in District
Reading and math scores fell sharply at two of the three high-performing D.C. charter middle schools operated by the Knowledge Is Power Program, the national network regarded as a model for serving children from low-income backgrounds, according to data released Friday.



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15 hours ago GMU, Towson among 11 schools with no race 'gap' in graduation rate
George Mason University and Towson University are among 11 institutions nationwide with little or no disparity in graduation rates between black and Hispanic students and white students, a study has found.



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15 hours ago Obama principal to create school environment
Standing in a classroom awash in natural light from large windows, Pearl Harmon, principal of Barack Obama Elementary School, rattles off features of the new Upper Marlboro school's environmentally sustainable design.



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15 hours ago More university students taking advantage of cheaper community college courses
Sean Daly's friends in Potomac spend their summer days planning their summer nights, savoring three months of freedom from the college grind.



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15 hours ago More Md., Va. students taking ACT for college entrance, data show
An increasing number of Maryland and Virginia high school students are taking the ACT college entrance test in a region where the SAT has long been dominant, according to data released Wednesday.



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15 hours ago U-Va. to scrutinize Virginia Quarterly Review after editor's suicide
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan on Thursday ordered "a thorough review" of the management of the school's acclaimed literary journal, following the suicide of a top editor last month.



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15 hours ago Ready to feel old? Meet the Class of 2014.
An Aug. 17 excerpt from Jenna Johnson's blog on students and newsmakers at colleges nationwide.



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15 hours ago Washington area colleges gain ground in U.S. News rankings
An Aug. 17 excerpt from Daniel de Vise's blog on the business behind higher education.



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15 hours ago Montgomery likely to pick superintendent who fits Weast's mold, experts say
Wanted: executive to run 144,000-student school district -- changing demographics, heavy parental involvement. Competitive salary, benefits.



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15 hours ago D.C. schools' performance should not be measured by focusing on achievement gap
The D.C. mayoral race is deeply split on most issues, but everyone agrees on one thing: We must reduce the achievement gap between minority and white students. It is too bad, then, that the gap is such a mindless measure of school progress.



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15 hours ago Maryland schools battle with limited funding and space as enrollment grows
More than 200,000 Maryland students streamed back to crowded classrooms Monday as school systems dealt with growth but little money to hire more teachers.



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15 hours ago Montgomery students get new digs
Jeannie Kauffman and her three children represent two distinct generations of Garrett Park Elementary schoolers. Kauffman attended the school as did her daughter, Ashley, 13, who is now a seventh-grader at Pyle Middle School.



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15 hours ago D.C. school to name hallway in honor of retired custodian
Some men get buildings named after them; others, streets. Ron Hillyer is getting a hallway.



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15 hours ago Transfer of D.C. teacher Erich Martel seems like administrators' revenge
My nominee for most effective whistleblower in the D.C. school system, Erich Martel, has finally gone too far in the eyes of some school administrators.



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15 hours ago Overcrowded Annandale High School makes adjustments on opening day
Annandale High School is Fairfax County's most crowded high school, with about 500 more students than it was designed to hold. On the first day of school Tuesday there were four packed lunch periods that started at 10:25 a.m., congested hallways, long bathroom lines, cramped athletic locker rooms...



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15 hours ago Potomac students implicated in hacking scheme start group to fight peer pressure
Two Potomac high school students who were implicated last winter in a scheme to change grades by hacking into school computers have started a student group devoted to combating the ill effects of peer pressure.


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18 hours ago Vienna band camp has kept Fairfax County youths in tune for more than 30 years
Sitting on the edge of his seat, foot-tapping trombonist Cole Overturf, 12, eagerly waited for his concert band practice to begin at McLean High School recently.



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18 hours ago Administration proposal aims to tighten oversight of for-profit colleges
Education Secretary Arne Duncan proposed Thursday that for-profit colleges be required to show through certain new measures that their graduates are not saddled with too much debt, an initiative he said was meant to protect students from "a few bad actors" in the industry.



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18 hours ago Terror suspect took his desire to belong to the extreme
Long before 20-year-old Zachary Adam Chesser embraced the cause of jihad, he was passionate about the heavy metal music of Marilyn Manson, the anime culture of Japan and the kinetic energy of American break dancing.



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18 hours ago Families fight to get school bus service back
Next month, some North Potomac residents will watch a school bus pass their street where it used to stop on its way to Travilah Elementary School.



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18 hours ago Teacher firings will test Gray
Deal with it, folks: Mayoral candidate Vincent C. Gray isn't going to say what he's going to do about D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee if he's elected.



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18 hours ago Interviews are regaining a foothold in college admissions process
WILLIAMSBURG -- Lucy King's passion for the trombone was too big to fit on a college application. So she traveled to the College of William and Mary last month to tell someone about it in person.



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