washingtonpost.com - K to 12K to 12Bus Crash Renews Debate on Seat Belts- April 24, 2005 The fatal school bus crash Monday in Arlington stoked a debate that has simmered across the nation for decades: Why don't school buses have seat beltshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63970-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/kto1... Officials Moving to Sell Some Schools- April 24, 2005 D.C. leaders have long avoided raising the sensitive topic of closing or consolidating schools, but the idea has gained momentum recently.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3221-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 Early Start on Reading Spells Success Later, County Says- April 24, 2005 Kindergarten teacher Laurie Weaver's classroom is a kaleidoscope of colors. Nearly every available inch of wall and blackboard is covered with the alphabet, words and pictures.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5683-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 Bus Wreckage Is Searched for Answers- April 24, 2005 Investigators have ruled out major mechanical problems but came no closer to determining what caused an Arlington County school bus and a trash truck to collide.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 A D.C. Teacher's Day in the Rose Garden- April 24, 2005 The sixth-graders were hunched over their desks behind the metal-screened windows of the middle school -- still digesting the difference between similes and metaphors -- as the limousine carrying their school's best teacher pulled up to the northwest gate of the White House yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 Kids Get Role in 'Selecting' Pope- April 24, 2005 On the day when cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church began the process of selecting a new pope, students at Saint Catherine Laboure School took the "oath of secrecy" and locked themselves away in a social studies classroom in a mock papal conclave.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63922-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/kto1... Montgomery Adjusting To Grading Shift- April 24, 2005 Walter Johnson is one of two high schools in Montgomery County to begin grading its students using a system that emphasizes academic achievement over participation.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 Treating Family Wounds- April 24, 2005 Nonprofit group Our Military Kids in McLean is offering to help pay for athletics, tutoring and dance lessons for children of deployed troops.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_education/kto1... At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter- April 24, 2005 Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 Janey Lists 16 Sites for Lease Plan- April 24, 2005 School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey issued a report to the D.C. Board of Education yesterday listing 16 underused schools that are candidates for sharing space with charter schools.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6013-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12 |