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Help, my class is out of control!

Karen Cornelius  Medium Jan 10 2016 Knowing how important a safe and orderly classroom is for effective learning, it is every teachers’ nightmare when they feel that they have lost control of a class of students. In fact, most teachers feel ashamed to admit…..

Where Langston Hughes lived in DC

Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902May 22, 1967) Langston Hughes began his career during the Harlem Renaissance period, living in DC for one year and four months, then moving to Pennsylvania and New York. While living in DC, he published his first…..

Keeping the Memory of Zora Neale Hurston Alive in a Small Florida City

BY TUNIKA ONNEKIKAMI DECEMBER 6, 2021 Atlas Obscura AS FAR AS MARJORIE HARRELL knew, her sophomore English teacher in 1958 was just an old woman—quiet, tired, a bit sick. It was only after the teacher died a couple of years later…..

Opinion: My fellow educators are quitting in droves. Here’s why.

By Brenda Cassellius February 9th Washington Post at 1:08 p.m. EST Brenda Cassellius is the superintendent of Boston Public Schools. She served previously as commissioner of education in Minnesota. Last month, I returned to teaching in a classroom after two decades. As…..

Montgomery County votes to hire its first Black woman as superintendent

By Donna St. George at 9:58 a.m. EST Washington Post Feb 8th 2022 Montgomery County voted to hire its first woman as schools superintendent — an African American educator who was a leader during the pandemic — a milestone in Maryland’s largest school…..

Opinion: The data are clear: The boys are not all right

By Andrew Yang February 8th 2022 at 1:54 p.m. EST Washington Post Andrew Yang is the founder of the Forward Party and a former candidate for New York mayor and U.S. president. Here is one of the biggest problems facing America: Boys…..

Recovery from COVID takes time

Patient education: Recovery after COVID-19 (The Basics) Written by the doctors and editors at UpToDateAll topics are updated as new evidence becomes available and our peer review process is complete.Literature review current through: Jan 2022. | This topic last updated: Dec 08, 2021. What is COVID-19?COVID-19…..

Gaithersburg reviewing streets, other memorials named after those with ties to slavery

BY DAN SCHERE |JULY 9, 2020 | 4:35 PM The Gaithersburg City Council is reviewing the history of streets and other memorials named after people with ties to slavery. Among the names under review is Benjamin Gaither, the man after whom the…..

Where Slavery Slept

BY MARK WALSTON |SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM Bethesda Magazine For more than a century, the small stone building stood on the site of today’s National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, its weathered walls attesting to its early 19th-century origins……

Uncover a heritage of heroes in Montgomery County, Maryland

At the Josiah Henson Museum and Park, visitors can feel the weight of the past. Interpretive exhibits based on Henson’s writing reveal details of everyday life on a plantation, while a log kitchen offers an immersion into an enslaved cook’s…..