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Parent Trigger: Straight Outta Compton?
You can buy an N.W.A.-inspired Straight Outta Compton cap today from Zazzle.com. Word. Two stories of class ventriloquism jumped out at me last week. You probably heard about Mitt Romney’s delusions of...
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Speak Out to Raise $2.8 Billion for Baltimore City Public Schools
Scene from a Baltimore City Public School via Transform Baltimore's Flickr Gallery The Transform Baltimore campaign is organizing a Speak Out, where teams representing any Baltimore City Public School...
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Neighborhood Public Schools Are Where It’s At
A detail of the mural outside The Barclay School in Charles Village. Photo credit: Adam Bednar, North Baltimore Patch Here’s some brain food to tide you over between now and the end of Thanksgiving...
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If You Give a Kid a Cupcake, or Is Baltimore the New Brooklyn?
Yes, moms and dads, I was thinking of this book when I wrote this post! The New York Times reported on March 16 on the cupcake wars at a Brooklyn public school. There’s some class conflict stirring up...
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Tonight in Baltimore: Seeds of a Parent Revolution, Grassroots Style
Tonight at the Village Learning Place in Baltimore’s Charles Village, just a few blocks southeast of the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus and a few yards south of Margaret Brent...
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Ten Things You Should’ve Read About Education This Week (in case you haven’t...
Illustration from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Original caption: Fig. 1.--Fruit of the pine-apple (''Ananas sativa''), consisting of numerous flowers and bracts united together so as to form a...
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Map It! It’s Painting Day at Hampden Elementary/Middle School #55 in Baltimore!
The time has come. Today, the Wham! Parent Co-op will be at Hampden Elementary/Middle School #55 on Chestnut Ave between 36th and 37th streets painting a giant U.S. map on the playground blacktop....
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Baltimore City’s Hampden Elementary/Middle School #55 Gets a Gigantic U.S. Map!
We did it! Tagged: Hampden Elementary/Middle, Wham! Parent Co-op
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The Best Wanted Poster Ever
Poster credit: Ebony Alston, Hampden Elementary/Middle School #055 staff member and volunteer coordinator extraordinaire Tagged: Hampden Elementary/Middle, volunteer opportunities
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The Best Wanted Poster Ever, Version 2.0
The first volunteer training event at Baltimore’s Hampden Elementary/Middle School #55 went so well, the staff is running it again on September 7 at 1:30 p.m. Swing by and hear about all the...
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This Week in Baltimore Education News
These are three of the stories that jumped out at me this week. Lots of room to opine, but I am biting my tongue. (Trying my best, anyway). I said I’d spend only an hour a week on this blog. (Trying on...
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Organized Parents, Organized Teachers: A Video by the Annenberg Institute for...
This is what parent empowerment looks like. Organized Parents, Organized Teachers – Working together for effective reform in America’s public schools From the Annenberg Institute on Vimeo. To get...
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Tonight in Hampden: The Neighborhood School Event of My Dreams!
Not your mama’s PTO meeting. Tagged: Hampden, Hampden School #55, neighborhood schools
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Last Chance to Support Transform Baltimore
Transform Baltimore campaign’s status updates in my Facebook feed at around 10:15 pm March 19, 2013. March 20 is the moment of truth. Click the image to find your reps. Tagged: HB 860, school...
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Last Chance to Support #transformbmore EXTENDED
Twitpic of MD Delegate Maggie McIntosh of the 43rd Legislative District arguing for HB 860 on March 20, 2013 If you’ve been following the fate of the Baltimore City school construction bill, you were...
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Maryland HB 860 Third Reading Passed (107-30)
Thanks for the good news, Baltimore Education Coalition. Tagged: Baltimore City Public Schools, HB 860, Transform Baltimore
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The Latest on Baltimore’s School Construction Bill from Transform Baltimore
Transform Baltimore Build Schools. Build Neighborhoods. SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE PASSES THE BALTIMORE CITY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BILL UNANIMOUSLY! We’re one step closer to achieving $1 billion for...
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Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance School Summit Wednesday
Press Release Are you a parent with a school-aged child looking for ways to make a difference in his or her education? We urge you to join us for the DBFA and Greater Homewood Community Corporation’s...
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Ten Things You Should’ve Read About Education This Week (in case you haven’t...
Illustration from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Original caption: Fig. 1.–Fruit of the pine-apple (”Ananas sativa”), consisting of numerous flowers and bracts united together so as to form a collective...
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Map It! It’s Painting Day at Hampden Elementary/Middle School #55 in Baltimore!
The time has come. Today, the Wham! Parent Co-op will be at Hampden Elementary/Middle School #55 on Chestnut Ave between 36th and 37th streets painting a giant U.S. map on the playground blacktop....
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