by Camille Doty | Jun 1, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Easter Seals senior participants happily embrace military children like Gage Andrews through the Little Warriors program . (Camille M. Doty/MNS) WASHINGTON –White House officials visited the Easter Seals Intergenerational...
by Camille Doty | Jun 1, 2010 | Education
(photo courtesy of state.gov) Nancy J. Powell is the director general of the foreign service, director of the State Department’s Human Resources Bureau. She has been in this position since August 2009. Why She Matters Powell works in the State...
by Michael Beller | May 27, 2010 | Education, Politics
The Duke men’s basketball team was honored at the White House Thursday. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed the Duke Blue Devil men’s basketball team to the White House Thursday to congratulate the team on its 2010 National Championship, the...
by Lahaina Mae Mondonedo | May 27, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Roughly a hundred students at Septima Clark Public Charter School listen to one of the concerts of “Buds in the Schools Week” Wednesday. Lahaina Mondonedo/MNS WASHINGTON -More than 1,500 students from six D.C....
by Lahaina Mae Mondonedo | May 26, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. D.C. area kids exercise with the First Lady on the South Lawn of the White House during a kick-off event for a new summer program. Lahaina Mondonedo/MNS WASHINGTON – First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed almost 100 D.C....
by Danny Yadron | May 26, 2010 | Education
Never let it be said they didn’t take their time. Lawmakers ended three months of panels on Tuesday about how to rewrite No Child Left Behind, the current version of the U.S.’s main public school law. It marks the end of a wonk-filled process that has revealed very...
