Letters: Hood College now can make education more accessible
Hood College will use all of the largest gift in its 130-year history for undergraduate, merit-based scholarships, Andrea E. Chapdelaine, the president of Hood, says.
Andrea Chapdelaine is the president of Hood College in Frederick.
Zūm’s Howard County school bus drivers file to form a union
Employees of Zūm, the company that assumed half of Howard County’s school bus routes, are seeking union representation.
Donna McSee and Jackie Scott, drivers for Howard County Public Schools employed by Zūm, talk in front of a line of brand new yellow school buses at Zūm’s Jessup operations hub on Aug. 22.
Slow his feet: How a former teacher helped one student
Former teacher Kerry Graham helps coach a student through his anxiety about confronting others.
Illustration of boy pushing through a cloud of large spiky shapes to get to the other side.
African American Department marks 20 years of preserving Black history, culture
In a Q&A, Manager Vivian Fisher reflects on the growth of the department and its Burns Memorial Reading Room.
Vivian Fisher, in a red sweater, smiles for a portrait in the Enoch Pratt Central Library’s Juanita C. Burns Memorial African American Reading Room.
Are you a Black teacher who quit? We need your help.
Black teachers leave Maryland schools at higher rates than any other group. We want to hear why.
Male tutor listening to female student reading in empty class
Advocates mount push for reparations in Maryland amid national debate
Reparations — and who ultimately will receive them — remains a contentious debate in this country and in Maryland.
Pastor Robert Turner of Empowerment Temple begins his monthly walk from Baltimore to the White House to raise awareness for reparations on Oct. 9, 2023.
Johns Hopkins nursing school launches D.C. institute focused on health equity
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing announced Wednesday that it’s launching a Washington, D.C. research institute that aims to move the U.S. health care system away from its focus on treating problems and toward to preventive, whole-person care.
Guests attend a reception for the opening of the Johns Hopkins University’s new Washington, D.C., location last month, which will house the School of Nursing’s Institute for Policy Solutions and elements of other schools.
Does Fox News know the James Webb Telescope has been peering into space for nearly 2 years?
Laura Ingraham, of Fox News, was doubled over in laughter with a guest of hers in a clip captured on the website formerly known as Twitter. Why? Because President Joe Biden referred to the Webb Space Telescope, but the TV hosts thought he gaffed.
The James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirrors are seen fully installed on the James Webb Space Telescope structure at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Harford County student arrested, charged with having gun at high school
Edgewood High School staff found a loaded firearm in a student’s locker on Friday, according to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.
A caucasian man drawing his modern polymer (Glock) .45 caliber pistol from an IWB (inside the waistband) holster under his leather jacket.
Five detained in connection with shooting outside Baltimore’s Carver Vo-Tech High School
School system confirms the victims were students and their families had been notified.
The street outside Carver Vocational-Technical High School with police tape in front.
Why a Maryland HBCU started a college degree program for men in prison
Bowie State University has about 20 students at Jessup Correctional Institution working toward a bachelor's degree in sociology.
Kyle Longerbeam, Jermain Williams and Timothy Hawkins, all Bowie State University students, flip through a book in the Maryland Correctional Institution library on August 1, 2023.
12 Baltimore County students injured in school bus crash
A school bus taking students to Vincent Farm Elementary School was involved in a crash in White Marsh.
Baltimore City school buses.
Teen shot outside Baltimore County elementary school as students were dismissed
A teenager was injured in a shooting at a playground at Edmondson Heights Elementary School in Woodlawn just after most students were released.
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Maryland joins DC, 40 other states suing Meta, claiming mental health harms to children
Maryland, the District of Columbia and 40 other states are suing Meta, alleging that its platforms cause harm to children by building addictive features, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced Tuesday.
FILE - A car passes Facebook's new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. For the first time in a year, the big companies in the S&P 500 may be seeing their profits grow again. The company has been focusing on keeping costs lower, and Wall Street also expects its revenue growth accelerated during the latest quarter.
Baltimore City school system proposes a teacher-pay overhaul. Other districts could follow.
Baltimore City school officials say they want to overhaul a merit-based salary scale that was considered a groundbreaking approach to teacher pay when it was adopted more than a decade ago.
Students work on an assignment for class inside Hampstead Hill Academy on 8/29/22. Monday was the first day back to school for Baltimore City students.
Morgan State’s newest sport gives athletes an unexpected chance to compete at the Division I level
The Bears are the first HBCU in the country to offer an acrobatics and tumbling program as a Division I scholarship sport.
Morgan State is the first HBCU in the country to offer tumbling and acrobatics as a varsity sport.
Jupiter has a jet stream twice as powerful as Earth’s strongest hurricanes
Using data and imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus, astronomers have discovered that Jupiter has a jet stream near its equator.
This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows stunning details of the majestic planet in infrared light. In this image, brightness indicates high altitude.
Johns Hopkins opens a gleaming new center in DC’s former Newseum
The university opened the building to graduate students this fall and officially dedicated its gleaming Washington, D.C., outpost Thursday morning before a gathering of around 1,000 people, many of them alumni and board members.
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels delivers remarks during the opening ceremony of the Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19, 2023.
Dunbar football coach lied about hundreds of school police overtime shifts, new court records say
The acting police chief for Baltimore City Public Schools, then a major, approved Lawrence Smith’s fraudulent overtime, the court documents say, raising serious questions about supervision and policies.
Dunbar football Lawrence Smith talks to his team after last Saturday's victory over Calvert. The No. 4 Poets seek a second straight Class 2A/1A title Saturday afternoon when they take on Patuxent from Calvert County at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
Roland Griffiths, pioneering Johns Hopkins psychedelics researcher, dies at 77
Roland Griffiths, who founded and led the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins, died yesterday. He was a pioneer in bringing psychedelics into mainstream medicine.
Roland Griffiths in the “psilocybin room” at Johns Hopkins
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