<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Howard </title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/md/howard?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><description>Howard </description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Columbia Comes of Age]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5272-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5272-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Recently, I wrote a  story about a teacher at Wilde Lake Middle School who was robbed at gunpoint in her classroom early one morning. As a crime reporter for the Post, I'm not naive. Still, somehow a holdup seemed almost incomprehensible at the middle school where I learned algebra from a very patient Mr. Longo and cried my eyes out while reading "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.]]></description><author> Allison Klein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glenelg Country Marks  Half-Century of Growth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49817-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49817-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ryland O. Chapman III likes to give his students at Glenelg Country School a handshake on their birthday and a pin shaped like a red dragon, the school's mascot.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[School Renovations Given $15 Million]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49818-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49818-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Howard County received a bonus from the Maryland General Assembly before it adjourned this week when lawmakers approved a total of $15.2 million for school construction, nearly $10 million more than county officials had anticipated.]]></description><author> Susan DeFord</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Students Celebrate Marrow Donor Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32754-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32754-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For three long years  --  a lifetime for most teenagers  --  the girls of Sister to Sister at Oakland Mills High School in Columbia have toiled on a bill that would lower the age of consent for bone marrow donations. Club members helped draft the original legislation, lobbied politicians and testified before the General Assembly.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atholton Teacher Has Winning Chemistry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31240-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31240-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bonnie Luepkes scurried around her classroom at Atholton High School in a white lab coat looking over students' shoulders and answering their questions.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents Fighting Rezoning Decisions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13035-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13035-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A group of county residents, determined to undo rezoning actions on more than 100 properties, is taking its cause and clipboards to supermarkets, libraries, parks, churches and schools.]]></description><author> Susan DeFord</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homeless Shelter  Budgeted for Growth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13036-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13036-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Howard County's only homeless shelter could get a long awaited expansion with the help of $1.5 million earmarked for the project by County Executive James N. Robey.]]></description><author> Mary Otto</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sale Puts Pavilion in Uncertain Stage]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5534-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5534-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The audience sits under a canopy of trees, near two red-roofed barns and an old farmhouse, as music wafts through the air on warm nights in Columbia. For years, concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion have evoked a scene that is a combination of Tanglewood and Woodstock.]]></description><author> Miranda S. Spivack</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governor Lauds Kids With Cause]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60346-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60346-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) visited Talbott Springs Elementary School in Columbia this week to recognize the students' contributions to tsunami relief, part of a widespread effort by Howard schoolchildren to aid survivors of the Dec. 26 disaster.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Bee-Average Grades Here]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60341-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60341-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Candidate No. 19, Sydney Speizman, stood patiently onstage and looked expectantly at the judges as they whispered frantically below her. It was Round 3 of the Howard County Library Spelling Bee, and the judges had just paused for their third official delay of the night.]]></description><author> Julia Feldmeier</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pledges, Not Panaceas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48509-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48509-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Teens who take virginity pledges are almost as likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease as those who do not, an eight-year study released Friday found.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New SAT Debuts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28464-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28464-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While revised exam is supposed to better reflect what students are learning in high school, the first crop of students to take the test on Saturday say they are wary of what to expect.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui and Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deal Yields a School for Northeast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20507-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20507-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A new elementary school will be built in the fast-growing northeastern section of Howard County as a result of an unusual multimillion-dollar deal between the school system and private property owners.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui  and Miranda S. Spivack</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxious Students Brace for New SAT]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20511-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20511-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Tomorrow night, like many of her classmates, Mary-Pat Forsyth will try to get to bed early so she'll be well rested for Saturday, when the College Board unveils a refashioned version of the nation's best-known college admissions exam, the SAT.]]></description><author> Julia Feldmeier</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Student Member Eyes Achievement Gap]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1573-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1573-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Seventeen-year-old    Josh Michael  of Ellicott City said he plans to make closing the achievement gap between white and minority students a priority during his term as the newly appointed student member of the Maryland Board of Education.]]></description><author> Susan DeFord  and Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Passionate Step That's Paying Off]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47231-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47231-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Becky Funk was two years out of college and trying her best to be a grown-up.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gala to Raise Money for Literacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47213-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47213-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Regional and local authors are expected to share their works against a backdrop of Asian culture at the eighth annual Evening in the Stacks gala, which will raise money for education and literacy programs of Howard County Library and the Maryland Center for the Book.]]></description><author> Alicia Cypress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business, Rouse Taxes Won't Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11260-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11260-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Measures that would have increased taxes on Howard County businesses and lifted two special exemptions Rouse Co. enjoyed for years were rejected last week by the county's legislative delegation.]]></description><author> Miranda S. Spivack</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Firm Accused of Asbestos Coverup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5493-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5493-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors Monday charged W.R. Grace & Co. with exposing mine workers and residents in a small mountain community in Montana to deadly asbestos and covering up the danger.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson  and Dina ElBoghdady</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rural Way, Growing County At Crossroads With Rte. 32]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57504-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57504-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_education/md/howard</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:10:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ They are all pondering the same nine miles of blacktop.]]></description><author> Mary Otto</author></item></channel></rss>