- Michael Alison Chandler
Michael Alison Chandler is an education reporter at the Washington Post. She was a 2001 Coro fellow in Public Affairs in San Francisco and a 2010 Fulbright fellow in Seoul, Korea where she studied education reform in one of the world’s highest performing systems. She is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She joined the Post in 2005.
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- Montgomery, Prince George’s and Baltimore superintendents ask lawmakers to restore education funding during special session
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- Maryland names Delaware schools chief as new superintendent
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- Mega Millions go to Md. teachers but don’t bring windfall to state’s schools
- ACT College shuts down amid federal allegations
- D.C. area schools turn to parents for more funding as budgets are squeezed
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- School board votes, even in Montgomery County, often come down to best guess
- Nine candidates compete in Montgomery school board primary
- Washington region schools taking ‘pink slime’ off the menu
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- Gifted advocates meet with superintendent Starr
- Kemp Mill Elementary School employees sue principal for harassment
- Police warn high school students and parents about beach week
- Senior Beach Week: Sex, drugs and crime are on tap, Md. police warn parents
- Undocumented Montgomery College student given reprieve from deportation
- Maryland School Assessments off to a sleepy start
- Montgomery Board of Education advocates for stronger education funding bill
- Md. budget would tip balance of power, giving state more say in education
- Montgomery teachers redefine image of unionism
- Montgomery schools now tweeting en Espanol
- Maryland teacher pensions deal still in the works
- Many students go hungry, skip school breakfast, officials say
- Israeli girls soccer team visits Montgomery County promoting peace for Arabs and Jews
- Compromise on Maryland teacher pensions likely to please few
- Traffic cameras to be added to Montgomery school buses next year
- Backpack flier prompts Montgomery to consider banning such notes
- Montgomery School Board to reconsider its flyer policy following complaints that some are anti-gay
- MoCo. Board of Education approves $2.13 billion spending proposal
- Valentine’s Day an elementary lesson in correspondence and kindness
- Northwood student’s rabbi wonders how to make Judaism seem cool to more students
- Starr: PFOX fliers saying gays can change ‘reprehensible and deplorable’
- Fliers sent home with MCPS students say gay people can change; A different message is taught at school
- Brig. Gen. Terence J. Hildner of Fairfax dies in Afghanistan of apparent natural causes
- In D.C. schools, early lessons in gay tolerance
- Montgomery student needed a rabbi’s note to wear yarmulke to school
- Montgomery superintendent and Daniel Pink discuss new ways to motivate teachers, students in book talk
- Are second-graders already over-tested?
- Edu-tweeters a growing tribe
- School funding debates heat up in Rockville and Annapolis
- Maryland’s ‘achievement gap’ highlighted by new advocacy group
- New praise in American schools — emphasizing hard work but not perfect scores?
- In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise
- Maryland schools ranked number one — again
- Inspector general finds gaps in Montgomery County school system’s financial reporting
- Montgomery County civil rights leader dies
- Montgomery County civil rights leader Roscoe Nix dies
- Are schools good neighbors?
- Traditional schools blurring district lines
- Alexandria priest to help lead new diocese for Anglicans returning to Catholic Church
- Montgomery residents outline priorities for new superintendent Joshua Starr
- Black students more likely to be suspended and expelled in Washington suburbs
- Where can you find teens in Prince George’s County? On Twitter, of course
- Outside firm will check for cheating on District’s standardized test
- Schools’ three R’s: Reading, writing and receiving gifts
- After-school program violated ethics policy, panel finds
- Grant a step toward universal pre-K in Maryland, an advocate say
- Settlement reprieves organic farm in Montgomery County
- Montgomery farmer settles with county on organic farm
- Organic farmer in Montgomery goes to court to prevent land from becoming soccer fields
- Former Montgomery schools chief Harry Pitt dies
- Should teachers be allowed to earn extra money at school?
- After-hours program prompts ethics review in Montgomery County
- School superintendents’ overseas trip questioned
- Montgomery school bus drivers overdue for a pay increase?
- New Montgomery superintendent kicks off potentially more peaceful budget process
- Superintendent Joshua Starr unveils budget, priorities for Montgomery schools
- Green Ribbon award will recognize eco-friendly schools
- Montgomery County school chief starts special book club
- Starr explores theories of intelligence in his first book club
- Should school buses carry traffic cameras?
- Gaithersburg teacher wins Milken Education Award
- New college-prep IB program could be offered to technical students
- New initiatives making schools data readily available
- Montgomery school lunches under scrutiny
- Per-pupil spending: How does Maryland rank?
- A former Bethesda-Chevy Chase freshman recalls hazing
- High school hazing worries educators
- Md. teachers unions, school boards fight for stronger financing law
- Poolesville students spotlight outdated high school
- Timeline: In Bethesda-Chevy Chase, a school becomes a park becomes an (almost) school
- Student with Down syndrome crowned homecoming king in Frederick County
- Parents, school officials concerned about ‘freaking’ at homecoming dance
- Volunteer in Africa? One cool way to study abroad in high school
- Starr restarts site selection process for B-CC middle school
- Parent responds to freaking at the homecoming dance
- New capital plan introduced for Montgomery Schools
- Nigerian immigrant wants to give hope to children laboring in hidden jobs
- Color Day cancelled next year for Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
- Teens getting too freaky at the homecoming dance?
- Student with Down syndrome crowned homecoming king
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase high’s Color Day turns violent; concerns on hazing
- Maryland seeks Race to the Top funds for early childhood education
- Amateur nitpickers send advice on lice
- Maryland teachers to discuss new evaluations
- Question for Nitpickers: What’s the best way to eradicate lice?
- Montgomery teens hear from new superintendent
- Starr recommends boundary changes in Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Silver Spring
- SAT scores at most Montgomery County high schools above national average
- Maryland superintendent search needs your help
- Starr’s tweets highlight generational divide in school leadership
- Maryland Schools Insider: An intro
- Grandmaster Maurice Ashley in D.C. to promote chess for children
- Private university in North Korea offers lessons in science and world peace
- Maryland graduation rate at record 87%
- Study: Single-sex education may do more harm than good
- Transition report highlights struggling schools in Montgomery County
- The new face of the SAT
- SAT reading scores drop to lowest point in decades
- First day of school starts with a sometimes bumpy ride
- Michael Cook, Fairfax band director, charged with soliciting teen online
- Elderly couple killed in Fairfax car crash
- Montgomery County is paving the way for new school standards
- Whatever Happened to ... the gay penguins?
- Montgomery, Loudoun schools back after Irene power outages
- School year opens for Loudoun, Frederick
- To inspire, schools take a page from Disney
- After quake, Washington-area schools undergo inspections
- 62% of Virginia schools labeled “failing” under No Child Left Behind
- States can apply for waivers on school testing required by No Child law
- New Montgomery schools chief takes a measured start
- Teachers march on Washington
- Live coverage: ‘Save Our Schools’ march
- Montgomery approves its first charter school
- Montgomery County school meals get passing grade for nutrition, with a caveat
- Pr. George’s schools to end foreign teacher recruitment
- Montgomery school board delays charter vote
- Montgomery delays vote on first charter school
- Montgomery considers first charter school
- NEA endorses Obama for reelection despite teachers’ discontent
- At NEA convention, mixed feelings among teachers for Obama ahead of 2012 vote
- Md. students show improvement in reading and math skills
- A House Republican challenges Obama on NCLB waivers
- Montgomery superintendent recommends county’s first charter school
- New teacher evaluation plan approved in Maryland
- Bomb scare delays planes at Reagan National
- FBI says nothing hazardous on plane at Reagan airport
- Details, Imperial Korea
- Discovering Korea’s imperial past
- Next Montgomery schools chief hears parents’ concerns
- Federal report shows history scores rising slowly
- Duncan pledges ‘No Child’ relief for states
- Montgomery, Fairfax lead in high school graduation rates
- Montgomery student wields power on school board
- Md. teacher evaluation redesign bogs down
- Obama aims to boost early-learning programs
- Obama lauds Memphis high school’s dramatic improvement in commencement speech
- Amid budget worries, D.C. teachers scramble for jobs
- Smart Mouth: A marathon of Seoul food, just the way Koreans do it
- Tokyo motorcycle shop turns to disaster relief
- In Japan, new attention for longtime anti-nuclear activist
- South Korea targets private ‘cram schools,’ citing heavy burden on families
- Radioactive water from Japan plant found leaking into sea
- Japan pressed to expand evacuation zone; new safety questions for workers at plant
- Four of six Daiichi reactors can’t be fixed; Tokyo Electric president hospitalized
- Utility president hospitalized as Japan struggles to contain radioactive spread at plant
- For one Japanese neighborhood, a tsunami and radiation end a way of life
- Radioactive contamination found in tunnels, soil outside Japan nuclear plant
- Radioactivity rises in seawater near Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
- Aftershocks keep Japanese in fear that another ‘Big One’ is coming
- For Japan’s displaced, journey to shelter can be difficult
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