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(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..
These 12 Teachers Don’t See Themselves as Superheroes Give this article Across the United States, education has become one of the hottest and most keenly felt political issues. Ever since the Covid pandemic began, governors, mayors, union officials, legislators and…..
By Donna St. George Washington Post Sep 1 2022 Test scores in elementary school math and reading plummeted to levels unseen for decades, according to the first nationally representative report comparing student achievement from just before the pandemic to performance two years later. Math scores dropped seven points…..
Perspective by Lila Nordstrom and Sarah Senk Washington Post September 11th 2022 In the 21 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have relied on wartime tropes to understand the tragedy: “Ground Zero” conjured images of nuclear detonation; the dead were described as “fallen…..
By Caitlin Gibson July 21, 2022 at 10:28 a.m. EDT Washington Post Eileen Grimes was sitting on the examination table, already feeling rather exposed in a thin paper gown as she waited to begin a routine appointment with her OB/GYN last August……
Advice by Lesley Alderman, LCSW Washington Post September 13th 2022 One of my patients showed up at her virtual psychotherapy session last week looking tired. She had always been ambitious and concerned about injustice. During this session, she sighed when talking…..
President Biden calls on schools to leverage American Rescue Plan funds to expand programming and services to help students make up for lost learning time and succeed America’s students are on average two to four months behind in reading and…..
By Sarah Mervosh New York Times Sep 1 2022 The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable. National test results released on Thursday showed in stark…..
Chad Williams in Medium I’m supposed to live less than 4000 weeks, and each one breezes by I read an article from Bloomberg titled “A Typical American Life, Week by Week”. The piece shows the chart below and then goes on to analyze the…..
Washington Post August 26th 2022 A21 Kenneth Walker is a native of Louisville. After nearly two and a half years, a person connected with the Louisville Metro Police Department has finally taken some responsibility for the death of my girlfriend, Breonna Taylor……
It was a first for Project CHANGE for a number of reasons. Firstly, to host a graduation in the form of a film festival. We have never done that before. We usually have speeches that we film and turn the…..