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- Potomac students implicated in grade-changing start group to fight peer pressure
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
Two Potomac high school students who were implicated last winter in a scheme to change grades by hacking into school computers have started a student group devoted to combating the ill effects of peer pressure.
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- Exploring the undead: University of Baltimore to offer English class on zombies
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:33:01 EDT
Is "Night of the Living Dead" a simple zombie film or a subtle antiwar statement? Precisely when did viral pandemic supplant nuclear radiation as the lead cause of zombification? And which sort of animated dead has the greater potential to frighten: shambler or sprinter?
- Student diversity not reflected in staff
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
Alexandria public schools boast a culturally rich student population -- hailing from 128 countries and speaking about 75 languages -- but getting staff members to reflect that student population has been a challenge.
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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT - Virginia Quarterly Review staffer died by his own hand, but he reached out first
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
The Charlottesville offices of the Virginia Quarterly Review are dark. The locks have been changed. Most of the staff has resigned or taken leave. And there are two divergent accounts of why the managing editor recently shot himself in the head.
- Overcrowded Annandale High School makes adjustments on opening day
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
Annandale High School is Fairfax County's most crowded high school, with about 500 more students than it was designed to hold. On the first day of school Tuesday there were four packed lunch periods that started at 10:25 a.m., congested hallways, long bathroom lines, cramped athletic locker rooms...
- How D.C. schools might be affected if Rhee decides to move on
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
The scenario is familiar in the District and big cities across the country: An ambitious leader is appointed to reform schools. Policies and practices are upended, five-year plans unveiled, a flurry of initiatives launched with high hopes. After two or three years, political pressure from interes...
- Owner of historic Loudoun hardware store killed with wife and kin in car crash
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
The owner of Nichols Hardware, a historic family-owned shop in Loudoun County, his wife and one of her relatives were killed in a single-car accident near Front Royal on Sunday afternoon.
- Parents use 'digital' grounding as a 21st century disciplinary tool
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:23:00 EDT
Not so long ago, teenagers in trouble got grounded. They lost their evenings out, maybe the keys to the family car. But lately the art of family discipline has begun to reflect our digital age.
- Transfer of D.C. teacher Erich Martel seems like administrators' revenge
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
My nominee for most effective whistleblower in the D.C. school system, Erich Martel, has finally gone too far in the eyes of some school administrators.
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