Family & Education

Changing Our Mindsets

What’s the first question most of us ask our kids after they take a...

MCPS loses a bright star

Donna Thomas loved teaching high school students about computer science and helping them stretch...

A Tense Situation

Anyone who’s attended a Listen and Learn session hosted by MCPS schools superintendent Joshua...

Raising the Good Enough Teen

There we sat, a couple hundred parents, many with pen and paper in hand,...

Seeing Red on Color Day

Student drinking. Assault. Hazing. How could an event designed to boost school spirit get so...

Homework-free weekend? Yeah, right

At Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, teachers weren’t allowed to assign homework over...
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Speaking out

Bullying. Budget cuts. Closing the achievement gap. Drugs in schools. While parents are usually the...

Getting an Earful

During the three months that Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr has been...

Students and Traffic: A Dangerous Mix

On a recent afternoon, I was about to make a right turn onto University...

The Starr Report

A father of three, Joshua Starr worries about how a culture of overachievement is...

Educators Par Excellence

Lynnette Lee Kindergarten, Wayside Elementary, Potomac Biggest surprise as a teacher: “The kids are the easiest part...

Superintendent Starr’s Marching Orders

We hear Montgomery County Public Schools described so often as “a world-class school system”...
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