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Howard's school choice
One of the great ironies of education reform in Maryland is that for all the standardization and testing directed at the classroom, the one place where there's no clear-cut formula for success is how school boards should be selected. Some boards are...Tags: Ken Ulman, Teaching and Learning, Howard County, Kevin Kamenetz, Minority Groups
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Film helps African-Americans remember a lively Carr's Beach
Decades ago, a trip to segregated Ocean City presented far too many challenges for African-American families. Instead they went to a sandy peninsula near Annapolis, known as "the beach," for a day's outing.
Carr's Beach — its proper name —...Tags: Otis Redding, Arts, Arts and Culture, Annapolis, NAACP
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BSO salutes legacy of Harriet Tubman with new composition
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is all about brand-new this month. Two weeks after premiering David T. Little's Baltimore-inspired "Charm," the BSO is set to premiere another commissioned work — "Chuphshah! Harriet's Drive to Canaan," by James...Tags: Harriet Tubman, Arts, Fine Arts, Arts and Culture, Morgan State University
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Tubman Underground Railroad center on Shore gets funding
Harriet Tubman has long inspired a deep sense of pride among Marylanders, especially in the rural communities of the Eastern Shore, where the former slave was born and led dozens to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
While her story is taught to...Tags: Human Interest, Harriet Tubman, Arts, Government, Arts and Culture
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Gay marriage: A tale of two states
The storylines were similar: A divided state legislature grapples with the emotional question of whether to allow same-sex couples to marry.
But several plot twists — an ambitious Democratic governor as the main character, a multimillion-dollar...Tags: Human Interest, Government, Voting, Elections, Richard S. Madaleno, Jr.
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Race and the 'flash mob' attacks
Here's my question about the teenagers who have been attacking and robbing people on North Michigan Avenue in recent days: Were they Christians? And if so, what denomination? Baptist? Catholic? Seventh Day Adventist? Those may sound like ridiculous...Tags: Apple iPad, Magnificent Mile, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Minority Groups
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Tropico Perspective: How many mistakes can we live with?
There is a compelling theory of memory that if you want to remember something for a while, you must be reminded of it right about the time your mind is about to forget it. Considering this nation’s news cycles and short attention span, now is...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Rick Perry, Punishment, Crimes, Death Penalty
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Proposed congressional redistricting plan has local Republicans crying foul
heather.keels@herald-mail.comLocal Republicans are crying foul over a proposed congressional redistricting plan that would radically redraw District 6 — currently represented by Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett — to include much of Democrat-heavy Montgomery County. "I...Tags: Frederick County (Maryland), Government, Annapolis, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Social Issues
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Breastfeeding counteracts risk for a type of cancer, study says
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.
African American women have higher rates of a type of breast cancer that isn't dependent for growth on the hormones estrogen or progesterone. They also have a higher rate of childbearing...Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Georgetown, Elections, Hormones and Metabolism, Medical Research
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Education Matters: What unites, rather than divides, us
Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...Tags: Culture, History, Gays and Lesbians, Arts and Culture, Native Americans
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Op-Ed: Gay history is everyone's history
I was quite surprised to read not one but two columnists attack a new law, the FAIR Education Act, just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. I usually find both columnists quite interesting and agree with most of their viewpoints, especially Dan Kimber's...Tags: Human Interest, Alan Turing, John Muir, Arts and Culture, Nazi Party
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse
The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which they suffer substance abuse disorders. That is not reassuring,...Tags: Substance Abuse, Social Issues, Juvenile Delinquency, Marijuana Use, Hispanic and Latino Americans
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