How a Howard County principal helped a struggling middle school turn the corner

What do 9/11, a cruise to Bermuda and a seaside TV show have in common? Read "All the World Can Hold" to find out. And then come watch me interview the author about it at this month's Banner Book Club www.thebanner.com/culture/book...

How 9/11 and a cruise to Bermuda come together in ‘All the World Can Hold’ www.thebanner.com/culture/book...

Baltimore’s next schools chief has some unfinished business waiting for him

Baltimore City Public Schools has its first new CEO in 10 yrs: He's from Atlanta, comes to Baltimore from Philly, has a long record of improving academic achievement and will make $345,000 a year. It's his first time in a superintendent gig. w/ @lizbowie.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

How Baltimore County schools are winning over homeschoolers

Jermaine Dawson, an experienced educator who has held high-level positions at major school districts from Houston to Philadelphia, will be the first new leader of Baltimore City Public Schools in a decade. buff.ly/yaeP5CW

New: Jermaine Dawson, an experienced educator who’s held high-level positions at major school districts from Houston to Philadelphia, will be the new leader of Baltimore City Public Schools. He spoke with the Banner’s @mayaklora.bsky.social & @lizbowie.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Maryland parents of stillborn babies could soon get $1,000 in relief

After years of advocacy from grieving parents, Maryland legislators on Monday passed a $1,000 tax credit for parents of stillborn babies www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

From @talia-richman.bsky.social: Her dad didn’t talk about the Holocaust. After his death, she’s learning to tell his story. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

A day care’s 24/7 cameras rebuilt parents’ trust where kids were once abused

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It’s not easy to operate a college in Hungary. So how does a small school in Maryland, which educates 3,000 students and has an endowment of under $200 million pull it off? My latest story looks at McDaniel College's satellite campus in Hungary: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

For many new and expecting parents, The Womb Room is a must visit for yoga, doulas and community. But The Castle fire displaced the staple, pushing it out of Hampden for the first time in over a decade. Where does The Womb Room go from here? www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

When Dana Riley bought her day care building, she didn’t think anyone would associate her with the sexual abuse and shooting scandal tied to its former owners. When she couldn’t shake the distrust and doubt, she came up with a solution: 24/7 live-streamed cameras www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

By @mayaklora.bsky.social: A day care’s 24/7 cameras rebuilt parents’ trust where kids were once abused. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

An old bottle can fetch tens of thousands of dollars at this Howard County show

Baltimore County native Reid Wiseman is preparing to lead the first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years. His proud father, battling cancer, wants to see it. buff.ly/ZSdcVKA

De'Jonnae and her husband José live by one universal truth: Reunification is the goal. These foster parents have taken in 15 kids over 5 years, making them an outlier in a state where the number of foster parents has been declining and half tap out after just 1 year www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

I’m here at #BWI and happy to report that as of right now, the lines are short and flowing www.thebanner.com/culture/trav...

There are over 100 HBCUs. Nearly 80 schools are home to a D-I wrestling program. Only one school can claim to be both: Morgan State. Two of its wrestlers will compete in this week's NCAA Championships. On a program many see as a "lighthouse" for HBCUs:

Months after the Castle fire, is the rebuild underway? @jasminevaughnhall.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Everyone knows it takes a village to raise a child. But as extended families live increasingly far apart and the cost of living rises, many parents find themselves without the help they need. So moms started building their home away from home in West Baltimore. www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

NEW: When Maryland's congressional delegation visited ICE's overcrowded holding rooms in downtown Baltimore Monday, they found the place unexpectedly empty. What happened to all the people being held there? We figured it out. Story for @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Historians, scholars and artists are working to unearth, record, preserve and share Maryland’s LGBTQ+ history— work they say is all the more urgent as the Trump administration and conservative legislatures try to roll back the rights of queer people www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Montgomery County needs more pre-K and early elementary teachers. Paraeducators are already in the classroom, but modest salaries can prevent them for chasing a higher education. Local universities and the public school system have a solution: free degrees www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

The hold rooms at Baltimore's ICE field office are empty, according to Maryland Congress members who toured the facility Monday. Their visit comes days after a federal judge imposed a limit on the number of people that could be held there. tinyurl.com/4apnefss

Johns Hopkins University has its eyes on D.C. The elite university just bought a second building in the nation's capital, bringing its total D.C. footprint to almost 600,000 square feet. Inside Hopkins' Bloomberg Center + the university's D.C. ambitions: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

There's a stretch of Maryland that's next to BWI and just north of Fort Meade. It holds housing, the Arundel Mills mall and has been targeted for growth and development. And it's under a complete development moratorium that seems to have come without warning. Read more in @thebaltimorebanner.com —

By Wesley Case: All the smokes: How a Hopkins professor’s mushroom trip led to 1,000 paintings of cigarettes. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Kids in the "iPad generation" have grown more reliant on screens at home and in school since the pandemic. The head of Baltimore's public schools has had enough. She introduced screen time and digital device limits, though she doesn't think they go far enough. www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Hundreds of Panamanian golden frogs are breeding in a closed-to-the-public section of the @marylandzoo.bsky.social in an effort to save them from extinction. Soon, zoo workers plan to bring some back to Panama…

Books are fading from kids’ lives. Parents want schools to do more. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Assuming Mount Vernon with its stately public square and other amenities can’t have its share of problems is like assuming a pretty person can’t ever be sad. For several weeks, we asked residents and business owners what’s stalling the neighborhood’s potential. www.thebanner.com/economy/moun...

To afford raises, Baltimore County schools is cutting jobs, likely growing class sizes

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A little bit of happy for your Wed. morning: We've been reporting for months that the federal immigration crackdown is keeping some scared immigrant families from venturing outside their homes. Norma Montesino is the bilingual Santa Claus bringing reading to them. www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

A snow day read: Who is Winnie Harris? She wrote her will in the pages of a Bible. It became a state record, $ now it lives at the Maryland State Archives — where what she wrote & other records give a glimpse into Black life in Baltimore shortly after emancipation. More in @thebaltimorebanner.com

As a former resident of downtown (who would literally never go back), this story and its accompanying videos are such a delight.

No one seems to agree on what "downtown Baltimore" actually is. Is it a narrow strip of land near the harbor? Does it include Mount Vernon? The @thebaltimorebanner.com office? Help us figure this out! Use our new tool to draw what you think of as downtown: www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

From @briaovers.bsky.social: YMCA employees wanted pay raises. They got a food pantry instead. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

Peppa Pig is coming to Baltimore! www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

With rumors and anxieties swirling over a potential uptick of ICE activity near Baltimore, you may be wondering what happens if ICE shows up to your school or college. We rounded up the answers for Central Maryland. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

How Maryland schools will respond to rumored ICE ramp-ups

The Dish: This North Charles Street cafe wants to talk about sex

ICYMI: Harford County's school board voted to fire its superintendent on Monday. His ousting had been years in the making. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

My latest story: "Aspiring teachers thought they were getting a full ride. Then the bills came." Students are accusing the state's higher education commission of bungling scholarships for the second time in six months. This time, for teacher education. www.thebanner.com/education/hi...