It’s Testing Season and These are the Highest Stakes Seen in Decades!
As Maryland school systems enter the fourth quarter, anyone who knows anything about Maryland education knows that means one thing. Testing! School systems have not administered any meaningful standardized tests since the spring of 2019. In Late February 2021, The Maryland State School Board voted to require schools to administer the MCAP (Maryland’s new standardized …
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What should be the Maryland General Assembly’s Education Priorities
What will the Maryland General Assembly’s Education Priorities be now that Kirwan has passed? When will the new plan go into effect? On Wednesday, January 12, the 2022 session of the Maryland General Assembly got underway. As always, there are many political hot topics to be addressed. Regarding education, it would appear that the main …
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What did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Say about Education?
Every year at this time, we rightfully celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Every year we hear many quotes associated with him. So, what did he say about education? In a short piece in the Morehouse College campus newspaper, the Maroon Tiger, King argues that education has a two-fold function to perform …
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Not Caught on Tape…. or so I thought….Case Files #1
You’re the AP I’m walking down the hallway on the way to lunch duty sporting my brand-new Jos. A Banks Signature Series suit when I hear a commotion around the corner in another hallway. As I turn the corner, I see a big group of the backs of dozens of students. I hear yelling screaming …
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Maryland Board of Education Met on January 25, 2022
The Maryland State Board of Education concluded the public portion of its meeting on 1/25 at around 4:15. While nothing of major significance was discussed or enacted during the session, there were A few points of interest. Requests for Calendar Changes: Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury requested that the state regulations be amended to allow him to …
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Maryland’s Public Schools are Losing Students. The question is why
It is no secret that Maryland’s public schools are losing students. The question is why. The Chalkbeat and the Associated Press reported that Public K-12 enrollment from 33 states across the nation dropped by more than 500,000 students, which is 2% since the same time last year. From 2017 through 2020 Maryland’s K-12 public schools added …
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Accountability Board Can’t meet Deadline
Today was supposed to be the day when the Accountabilities and Implementation Board (AIB) of the Maryland’s Blueprint for Progress (Formerly known as the Kirwan Commission) would unveil its massive plan on how the newly passed law would be implemented. The AIB is responsible for the oversight of the whole plan and as such was …