The Center for Public Integrity released a major report this week on sexual assaults on college campuses around the nation, saying that one in five women will be the victims of rape or attempted rape by the time she graduates. But few rapes are reported to police, and prosecutors tend not to want [...]
The lawyer has become the client.
Baltimore attorney Paul W. Gardner II, who has made headlines as counsel for alleged White House party-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, has now himself retained a lawyer.
The lawyer, Mark R. Dycio of Fairfax, Virginia, tells me that when the [...]
Alleged White House party-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi were on the Today show this morning, insisting that they really were invited to the Nov. 24 state dinner. They have the e-mails to prove it, they said, though they did not reveal them to Matt Lauer.
The [...]
My colleague, Childs Walker, writes today about the push by the University of Maryland system to require all its entering freshmen to have had four years of high school math. The move would, of course, eventually encourage the state to make four years of math a high school graduation requirement.
There's' [...]
In a recent post on his blog, Washington Post education writer Jay Mathews writes about the lack of research papers in high school these days. He says that students are no longer being asked to write 3,000- or 4,000-word research papers that require students to go through a step-by-step process of [...]
Today, we report about the sad death of a River Hill High School football player over the weekend. The driver of the vehicle was a River Hill graduate and former football player. He is now facing charges of vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. The accident came a day after the Howard [...]
Happy Monday and welcome back!
Was a man shot in Mount Vernon the victim of a hate crime? HT: Baltimore Crime. Who would buy meat from a van, anyway? Letting 300 people out of pre-trial lockup every month would save $10 million a year? Page [...]Before everyone in schools heads off for a much-needed Thanksgiving break, here's some thoughts from Glenda Cornish, a CollegeBound scholar, who can remind everyone why they can be grateful for those who work with young people. She wrote this for the CollegeBound newsletter:
"Every young child has some idea of what [...]
The editorial page is writing an editorial about Maryland's slow take-off on trying to get Race to the Top funds from the U.S. Department of Education. If successful, Maryland would get as much as $250 million in stimulus money next year, but the state appears to have been slow to [...]
Here are some pre-Thanksgiving treats to pass the time until the Dixon jury comes back with a verdict:
The New York Times magazine examines the fallout - legal and otherwise - of taking a paternity test. (HT: Baltimore Crime.) The Washington Post reports on the technological challenges of monitoring [...]As Caryn Tamber reported today, we can no longer tweet from within the courtroom at the Dixon trial. That doesn’t mean the tweets have been silenced, though; they’ve just moved down the hall. You can still watch for updates on www.twitter.com by “following” @mddailyrecord, or just search for [...]
Silence is apparently not a good thing when it comes to babies.
Children between the ages of 2 months and 6 months who have a lot of exposure to language are more likely to have advanced language skills later in life, according to research being released this weekend. The research suggests that parents should [...]
This weekend, eighth-graders who live in Baltimore City will be taking the first steps toward exercising a choice that wouldn't have been open to them a decade ago. The city school system is holding its high school fair and about 4,000 students are expected to come with their parents to' [...]
The folks who bring you Super Lawyers came out this week with a ranking of the top law schools in the country. And it’s dopey.
There. I said it.
The list ranks schools by the number of graduates included on lists of Super Lawyers. Let’s put [...]
We don’t typically give birthday shout-outs in this space, but I think one is deserved for a man who has done more to expose Americans to the legal system than perhaps anyone else alive.
I am, of course, referring to Judge Joseph A. Wapner - aka Judge [...]
I don't usually share my personal opinions or experiences on this blog, but today I want to encourage all parents to take advantage of the last two days of American Education Week and go visit your child's classroom. No matter how busy you are, adjust your schedule and get there.
For those' [...]
And you thought that city schools chief Andres Alonso and Omari Todd, director of Teach for America Baltimore, were on the same side when it comes to kids. Well, think again. They are dualing it out for the Mustaches for Kids program, beginning tonight when they will make their chins [...]
I received a lovely Edible Arrangements fruit basket at my desk this morning.
Since I can find a law angle to almost anything, I’ll tell you that there was a funny warning label attached to my fruit. It told me, first off, that the arrangement was [...]
We wrote in Saturday's paper about the fact that Maryland appears to be lagging behind other progressive states in positioning itself to be competitive in the race to get a portion of $4 billion in federal funds. Education advocates around the state have questioned why Maryland has not been more proactive in [...]
Joan Biskupic has firmly established herself as the Doris Kearns Goodwin of judicial biography with her stirring and well-researched examination of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, arguably the nation’s most polarizing jurist.
In American Original, Biskupic explains how Scalia’s constitutional jurisprudence — [...]
