For five first-year teachers, the view from the other side of the classroom is challenging, exciting, and, yes, a little scary.
Don't smile for the first three months.
That was the advice science teacher Taylor Shannon received last year as she headed into her first teaching job at Baltimore's Northeast Middle School....
Nine years ago, Matthew Weinberg, CEO of Weinberg Group, a global business consulting firm, walked into three Baltimore City and County high schools with a more or less blank check, wanting to invest...
The BSO hopes a music program creates social change at a West Baltimore elementary school.
If you think putting a violin in the hands of a six-year-old sounds premature, think again.
This month, first graders at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in West Baltimore will begin OrchKids, an...
A new public boarding school hopes to bring opportunity to at-risk students.
Once home to more than 2,500 high school students, the old Southwestern High School this spring was little more than a hulking concrete structure in danger of being overtaken by weeds. Inside it was...
Teach For America recruits shine in troubled schools.
It's the plot of countless movies: naive rookie teacher strives to make a difference, but struggles to reach her inner-city students. This is not how one would describe the typical experience of a...
Dr. Andrés Alonso is shaking things up—and making a few enemies—as he tries to fix the long-ailing Baltimore City school system.
Andrés Alonso made his priorities clear on day one.
It was June 13, 2007. After a top-secret, months-long search for a new CEO for the Baltimore City Schools, Alonso was being introduced to an...
Will politicians show you charts and graphs that don't tell the whole story? Can real estate agents mislead you with numbers? Can a low-interest credit card actually cost you more?
Yes, yes, and...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
On November 26, 1996, Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke stood at a podium at downtown's federal courthouse and choked back tears. "I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, everything tells me this...
A local mortuary science program trains students for one job that will never run out of customers.
The spread in the lecture hall looks good enough for a junior high birthday party. A mountain of fried chicken sits in the middle of a multi-table buffet alongside a bucket of icy Pepsi, mounds of...
For many Baltimoreans, it's not your job or your car or your clothes that matter. The most important thing about you is where you went to high school.
You don't have to be born-and-bred Baltimore to have been asked The Question, much less posed it to someone else—the mark of a true Baltimorean lies in the answer. The Question is, of course, "Where'...
