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From Separate and Unequal: Finding a Path Forward for Baltimore.
When we talk about transforming Baltimore City Public Schools, we are talking about creating a new path for our children and the future of Baltimore. We are talking about mending century long divides and segregation which still exist in our schools and our neighborhoods. We are talking about the white and middle class flight from…
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Growing STEM in Baltimore
As educators and foundations consider how to expand STEM learning in Baltimore, I’d like to offer a few recommendations. First, define STEM broadly. When we see STEM as a way of understanding and solving problems of all kinds, it becomes more than a club for kids who like robotics or computer coding. STEM can help…
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Leading to Leadership
Are Baltimore schools starting to pay attention to student leadership and ideas? It may be too early to tell. It is one thing to ask students to speak up. It is another to listen. But if the student leadership conference at Johns Hopkins University is any indication, students at Baltimore schools are willing to take…
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Destiny Watford rejects the planned Energy Answers Incinerator for Curtis Bay
Destiny Watford, Free Your Voice, speaks against a proposed incinerator at Curtis Bay, an area already suffering from air pollution. Watford won an environmental award for her opposition to the plant.