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The field of candidates for two seats on the Anne Arundel County school board has been winnowed from 20 to 13. Several candidates have withdrawn as the vetting process continues with public hearings before a newly created nominating commission.

In Julie Rice's classrooms, vines hang from the ceiling, monarch butterflies are emerging from their caterpillar stage, Chinese dragon kites dangle overhead and bugs chirp during lessons.

Michelle Ohanian teaches English in a Centreville classroom to more than a dozen students from nearly as many countries, ranging from Pakistan to El Salvador to Cameroon.

Biology and chemistry teacher Kelly Horan greets each student to her Reservoir High School classroom with a handshake.

A new report from the Montgomery County school system says the county's special-education teachers are having so much trouble administering an alternative version of the Maryland School Assessment to severely disabled students that nearly one-fifth of students tested last year failed solely because...

A ll responses today deal with the column "Do Grades or Standardized Test Scores Make the Student?" that appeared April 10 in the Extras.

On the face of it, Natalie Stephenson and Xu Duan, the Prince George's County teachers who won this year's Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher awards, don't have much in common.

Nine students were caught yesterday in the gymnasium of a Montgomery County middle school in possession of a noxious brew, police said: vodka, wine, tequila and rum, mixed with various fruit juices and concealed in water and soft-drink bottles.

The Senate unanimously approved legislation yesterday to ensure that tight credit markets don't impede students' ability to obtain college loans.

Ward Merritt begins every school year the same way. Standing in front of a roomful of wide-eyed second-graders, he tells them: "I have two jobs: to make sure that I keep you all safe and to see that all of you learn."