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DC Council hears ideas for post-pandemic education: Extended teaching hours, smaller classes 05/26/2021 04:39pm • The D.C. Council���s Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery is getting flooded with recommendations as it considers what the future of education in the District should look like. As dozens of panelists spoke to the committee, one thing most agreed on is that a one-size-fits-all appro New concessions at BWI bring local flavor 05/26/2021 10:08am • Miss Shirley���s Cafe opened its first airport location at BWI Marshall. (Courtesy BWI Marshall Airport) For passengers traveling through BWI Marshall Airport this summer, particularly on Southwest Airlines, there is now more to do to kill some preflight time. The recently completed 55,000-sq Baltimore students won't be forced to repeat grades 05/26/2021 09:01am • BALTIMORE ��� Baltimore City Schools won���t require tens of thousands of students failing classes this year amid challenges posed by the pandemic to repeat a grade in the fall. Instead, Chief Academic Officer Joan Dabrowski says they will give students additional time and customized instruction Work from the beach: How some made the most of telework 05/26/2021 04:10am • The view from Paz Magat's Ocean City getaway rental. The Wheaton resident is one of many who worked near the beach during the pandemic. (Courtesy Paz Magat) With working from home becoming the new norm during the pandemic, the lack of a change in scenery led some people to get a bit stir crazy. Md. education officials push for full return, report on attendance, failure rates 05/25/2021 09:40pm • The Maryland State Board of Education crunched the numbers on everything from attendance to failure rates in school systems during the third term and found that most school systems had attendance rates of 90% or greater. One school system, Baltimore City, had the lowest attendance rate of 79% ove New law pushes Prince George's Co. restaurants to give kids healthier options 05/24/2021 08:11pm • Healthier dining options for kids are now the law in Prince George's County, Maryland. With the "Healthy Kids��� Meals Bill" becoming law, Prince George���s County joins cities like Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia ��� and the state of Delaware ��� in enacting measures aimed at improving chil CDC seeing cases of Myocarditis in older teens following COVID-19 vaccine 05/24/2021 04:11pm • A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine safety workgroup that meets weekly to review data following COVID-19 vaccinations has found some cases of Myocarditis in older teens and younger adults. Dr. Alexandra Yonts, an infectious disease specialist at Children���s National Hospital, to How to talk to younger kids about getting COVID-19 vaccinations 05/24/2021 04:20am • A Maryland pediatrician had advice for families whose children have not yet been vaccinated. About 19.7% of all Americans who received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine within the last two weeks were children ages 12 to 15, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio Lifeguarding amid a pandemic: Ocean City lifesavers get ready for 2021 beach season 05/24/2021 03:58am • When Memorial Day weekend begins later this week, a team of close to 200 lifeguards will be back on duty, at 97 lifeguard stands set up along 10 miles of beach in Ocean City, Maryland. ���We���re really expecting a boom year for the Town of Ocean City,��� said Butch Arbin, who is captain of the O Anne Arundel Co. public schools listening tour begins Monday 05/23/2021 05:14pm • Anne Arundel County Public Schools will host a series of virtual listening tours beginning Monday to help parents, students, employees and community members convey what they think instruction should look for the 2021-22 school year. The sessions will be organized by four topics -- equity, schedul Books and literary gifts for that newly minted graduate 05/22/2021 10:40pm • If you have a smart young graduate in your life, a book always seems like a thoughtful gift. But, you shouldn't buy just any old book, says Ron Charles of the Washington Post's Book Club. In his most recent newsletter, he notes that there are better options than the nostalgic "Oh, the Places You' As US schools resume standardized testing, large numbers are opting out 05/22/2021 07:53am • Standardized tests are returning to the nation���s schools this spring, but millions of students will face shorter exams that carry lower stakes, and most families are being given the option to forgo testing entirely. With new flexibility from the Biden administration, states are adopting a patch Migrant kids languishing at Army base for 'alarming' periods of time 05/21/2021 10:51pm • As of last week, nearly 600 migrant children had spent 40 days or longer at a sprawling military base in west Texas that the U.S. government has converted into an emergency site for unaccompanied minors, according to data obtained by CBS News. More than 50 of those children had been housed at the Fairfax Co. scientist & rapper drops bars about buzzing cicadas 05/21/2021 01:42pm • In case you haven't gotten enough of the resurgent Brood X cicadas and the kitschy fanfare around them, there's now a rap to accompany this 17-year phenomenon. By day, Andy Lima works at the Disease Carrying Insect Program for Fairfax County, Virginia's health department. But when he's not in Disney's 'Descendants' author dishes on new 'High School Musical' bridge novel 05/21/2021 11:34am • She wrote the novels for the hit Disney villain series "The Descendants." Now, author Melissa de la Cruz pens the novel "The Road Trip" set in between seasons of the Disney+ series "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series." "The book is what we're calling a bridge novel," de la Cruz t