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By Katie Shepherd November 13, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST Montgomery County voters elected a historic slate of candidates to the County Council on Tuesday, adding Latina, Asian and Black representatives to a body that will be majority-female for the first time……
By Erin Cox and Ovetta Wiggins Updated November 8, 2022 at 8:52 p.m. EST|Published November 8, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. EST Washington Post Author and former nonprofit chief Wes Moore, a Democrat, defeated far-right Republican Dan Cox to become the first Black person elected governor in…..
By Katie Shepherd November 4, 2022 at 7:26 p.m. EDT Washington Post Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich on Friday signed a bill that expands county police training to include 30 hours of coursework at Montgomery College aimed at reducing racial bias. Cadets…..
By Nicole Asbury and Corinne Dorsey Updated November 1, 2022 at 10:27 a.m. EDT|Published October 29, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Washington Post In Montgomery County, abus driver shortage has led to some schools having to excuse students from classes when their buses do not show…..
By Katherine Shaver Washington Post Published October 25, 2022 at 1:10 p.m. EDT The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved a 30-year growth plan Tuesday that calls for denser development, including a recommendation to allow duplexes, triplexes and small apartment buildings in neighborhoods zoned for…..
D.C. teacher reveals chaos unleashed by trying not to be too hard on kids Perspective by Jay Mathews Washington Post Oct 24th 2022 A teacher I know was working at a D.C. public high school when the district installed a rule…..
BY COLLIN BINKLEY AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 24, 2022 at 5:04 AM EDT from FORTUNE The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results…..
The Marginalian was born as a plain-text newsletter to seven friends on October 23, 2006, under the outgrown name Brain Pickings. Substack was a decade and a half beyond the horizon of the cultural imagination. The infant universe of social media was filled…..
By Alex Daniels OCTOBER 19, 2022 The Chronicle of Philanthropy The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend more than $1 billion on a sweeping national plan to improve math education over the next four years. Its goal: to help students succeed…..
By Danielle Carr Dr. Carr is an assistant professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics at U.C.L.A. Sept. 20, 2022 What if the cure for our current mental health crisis is not more mental health care? The mental health toll…..