Wash Post Education
Summer engineering program fosters genuine interest for some students
High school students Aszurtoine Gunter-Fields and Terrell Ford built a bridge that just wouldn't break.
United States - Education - Colleges and Universities - Business - University of Illinois
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
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.
Business - Education - Tests - Gray - Educators
Obama defends education policies in speech to National Urban League
President Obama pushed back Thursday against critics of his policy of forcing staff shake-ups and other major interventions at struggling schools, telling a civil rights organization that "something needs to be done differently" when schools fail year after year.
Education reform - Barack Obama - United States - President - National Urban League
Fairfax principal apologizes for yearbook ad, stops selling weight-loss products
An advertisement that Principal Nardos King placed in the Mount Vernon High School yearbook, for weight-loss products she sold in her free time, surprised and upset many parents this summer, and prompted an apology.
Programs - Yearbook - Teacher - School district - High school
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.
Law - United States - Immigration - Arizona - Services
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.
United States - Education - Law - High school - Volunteer
Md. mother of 2 killed in D.C. storm was happily committed to community, family
Michelle Humanick was ever-present in her College Park neighborhood. Stopping to chat while walking her golden retriever, Rocky BalBubba. Playing with her daughter in the snow. Hosting political events, countless play dates, family-friendly movie nights and a regular poker party with her husband.
Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences - Meteorology - Storm Chasing - Windsor
States setting pace on school change; Obama agenda stalled in Congress
While states are moving fast to overhaul public schools, President Obama's education agenda is hitting a wall in Congress.
Barack Obama - United States - President - George W Bush - Democratic Party
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.
JAY MATHEWS - Washington Post - United States - Education - High school
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