The Montgomery County Board of Education (BOE) rejected on Mar 24 a bill that would increase the weight of final exams but voted to reevaluate the county's attendance and grading policies.Some high school parents, students and teachers strongly opposed the suggested exam-weight increase from 25 to 30 percent. But some believed this change would improve students' preparation for the Maryland High School Assessments (HSAs), statewide tests which will become a graduation requirement in 2007. The BOE ruled 6-1 against the measure.
More than 85 people nationwide have been diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a mysterious lung infection that has set off a global health alert.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tears are becoming epidemic among women, who are up to 10 times as susceptible to injury as men, said Angelo Colosimo, director of sports medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Discovery Communications building's warmly lit main lobby smells of plastic, Windex and fresh paint. A cheerfully dinging mechanical contraption pushes and shakes rainbow-colored balls down a series of tracks. Outside, as a family passes by on the sidewalk, its wide-eyed toddler glances back five times at "Stan," a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil replica that glares malevolently through the glass wall.
His pulse races and his hands grow sweaty. He sneaks a glance to either side and shares a surreptitious grin with his friends. Then he ducks his head and breathes deeply, trying to look nonchalant. Then Mitch, now a senior, copied another of his friend's answers to last May's AP Computer Science exam onto his scantron.
Montgomery County's Go Montgomery! transit plan, to be implemented over the next ten years, aims to ease congestion in the Four Corners area with a new Metro line, bus system improvements and HOV lanes.
As a sometimes-bespectacled, Snood-playing senior in possession of an unfortunate number of highwater pants, I've recently realized that my public school career has been a 12-year period of unadulterated dorkiness. (I'm in the Magnet).
The Discovery Communications building's warmly lit main lobby smells of plastic, Windex and fresh paint. A cheerfully dinging mechanical contraption pushes and shakes rainbow-colored balls down a series of tracks. Outside, as a family passes by on the sidewalk, its wide-eyed toddler glances back five times at "Stan,” a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil replica that glares malevolently through the glass wall.