BALTIMORE – At the Maryland State Board of Education meeting Wednesday, Norman Augustine, retired chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, recited a litany of statistics to illustrate his point that the nation’s and Maryland’s students are not being prepared to be competitive in the global economy

BALTIMORE – Last year, Noah Schechter auditioned for a role in the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival’s teen production of “Hamlet

ANNAPOLIS – Immigrant advocates and high school students went before a House committee Tuesday to describe how illegal immigrants who live in Maryland are unable to go to college here because they are not allowed the lower tuition rates available to in-state students

STEVENSVILLE – Last spring two ducks landed in a pond in the courtyard of Matapeake Elementary School

ANNAPOLIS – It was late on a chilly February afternoon and Jonerik Blank, a 20-year-old midshipman at the U

COLLEGE PARK-When child advocate Felicia DeHaney was a young girl she asked her Jamaican father why there were no black faces on U

BALTIMORE – A little competition may soon be coming to the obscure and complicated process of accrediting Maryland’s teacher training colleges

BALTIMORE – Edgar Allen Poe’s 198th birthday celebration looked more a like a funeral than a party – with a casket, fans dressed in black, and a graveyard conveniently located right outside the door

BALTIMORE – Consultants hired by the state school board have found that the performance of Maryland’s elementary and middle school students has improved, but they stopped short of crediting the improvement to more than $1 billion in increased funding, some of which has come as a result of a state education reform law

ANNAPOLIS – It has long been known that high school graduates get better paying jobs than dropouts