by Lauren Drell | Jun 9, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Terrell Townsend, a former juvenile delinquent, rediscovered a love of learning and got back on track at a state-of-the-art school in a juvenile prison. Lauren Drell/MNS WASHINGTON—Terrell Townsend is a soft-spoken 16-year-old...
by Camille Doty | Jun 7, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Steven Hill does homework for the parents GED class offered by Meridian Public Charter School. (Camille M. Doty/MNS) WASHINGTON – The Meridian Public Charter School offers classes to help parents. Their motto –...
by Melissa Tussing | Jun 7, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. A board at the Scripps National Spelling Bee shows who has just spelled, the word they got and how they spelled it. Misspelled words are in red. Melissa Tussing/MNS WASHINGTON – How hard is it to compete in not one...
by Danny Yadron | Jun 4, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – This was not a book list for the pre-teen literati. Experts in child and young adult literature griped after a group of state education officials released a reading list last week with their long-awaited national benchmarks for public schools, the Common...
by Justine Jablonska | Jun 3, 2010 | Education, Politics
Department of Education Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Kevin Jennings serves as the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education. Jennings is a...
by Lauren Drell | Jun 2, 2010 | Education, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. A political cartoon depicts a common perception of lobbyists in Washington. Lauren Drell/MNS WASHINGTON—Lobbyists. According to Merriam-Webster, they’re a group that conducts activities aimed at influencing public...
