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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One summarized the premise of this series: an examination of key stats from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) comparing Montgomery County to its largest neighbors. Part Two looked at population. Part Three looked at gross domestic product (GDP). Now…..
December 11, 2024 4 Min Read By Adam Pagnucco. Last fall, MCPS released its spring 2024 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) results by school. For the first time my sources can remember, MCPS released them in spreadsheet format rather than pdf, a positive step for transparency. …..
By Rory Smith Rory Smith has been watching soccer for 40 years and reporting on it for 20, eight of them at The New York Times. A few weeks ago, the soccer team that occupies rather more of my thoughts than…..
Some Montgomery high schools will offer Holocaust studies as a semester-long elective course, following a school board vote earlier this month. By Nicole AsburyNovember 18, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST Washington Post Amid calls for Montgomery County Public Schools to educate…..
By Brian Broome November 11, 2024 at 1:09 p.m. EST Washington Post Every Sunday, like many Black boys way back when, I was stuffed into a suit, a comb was run through my hair, and I was dragged off to church very…..
Every two years, AmeriCorps partners with the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct the Current Population Survey Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement, the most robust survey about civic engagement across the country and over time. The most recent survey shows the…..
By Adam Grant New York Times November 12th 2024 Dr. Grant, a contributing Opinion writer, is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Humans may be the only species that can imagine an unknown future. But that doesn’t mean we’re any good at it……
By Nicole Asbury November 8, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST Washington Post Montgomery County advocacy groups and afterschool service providers say they have noticed a troubling trend: Students of color were not reading on grade level, but their parents had no idea…..
By Jonathan Haidt and Will Johnson New York Times September 17th 2024 Dr. Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business; Mr. Johnson is the chief executive of the Harris Poll. This article has been updated to reflect news developments. Was social media a…..
