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 — [...]
Is your job making you miserable? Fabulous!
As Above the Law points out, a new study indicates that having a negative outlook “makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory” — all helpful qualities for the successful lawyer. Cranky-pantses [...]
The Baltimore City school board has appointed Shawn Y. Crowder as the new Chief of Human Capital, a new name to describe the human resources chief. Crowder was the former chief of staff and head of human resources for the Philadelphia school district before being assigned to her current job as deputy for Strategic Partnerships for [...]
Our colleague, reporter Mary Gail Hare, wrote an op ed piece this week about her 45th high school reunion from the Institute for Notre Dame, an all-girls school that has educated many Baltimore women.
The response from readers surprised her. She got more than 50 e-mails in one day, which just goes [...]
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The political season is blooming early in Baltimore County as another candidate has entered the race for the Maryland Senate seat being vacated by Republican Andrew P. Harris. Alfred W. Redmer Jr., the former Republican state delegate and insurance commissioner, is holding a campaign kickoff rally tonight [...]
Sesame Street turns 40 today. I’ll let that sink in for a minute.
(Yes, I know, it was only yesterday you were a kid watching it, where did the time go, etc. etc.)
Big Bird and friends have taught generations of children how to count, share, [...]
Happy Monday!
The cigarette makers don’t have to keep paying tobacco growers in Maryland. John Bratt’s technique would save those who confuse Alito and Scalia on the bench. The Supreme Court’s opposition to cameras in the courtroom doesn’t carry a lot of weight when the justices [...]The National Dairy Council is fighting back. They sent information out today to try to combat what they see as the growing threat to milk drinking in public schools. The food activists who got soda out of school cafeterias may be moving on to chocolate milk. Horrors.
But the National Dairy Council [...]
The Center on Education Policy, a non-partison group that has tracked the No Child Left Behind Act since its passage, has come out with a new report on how states are doing with high school exit exams. Maryland is now in its second year of requiring that students pass the Maryland [...]
