Leah Fabel

School officials rush to remove privacy breach from Internet

326 days ago - Sensitive data about some Montgomery County high school students became available online last week, in possible violation of a federal law protecting student privacy.

Area schools test ways to track performance

326 days ago - New technology will allow educators to track the performance of students in suburban D.C. school districts daily and with unprecedented precision

ACT scores rise as more take test, but many miss benchmark

327 days ago - High schoolers in Maryland and Virginia scored five-year highs on the 2008 ACT entrance exam even as more of them opted to take the test, according to results released Wednesday morning.

The 3-minute interview: Carole Ann Barth

336 days ago - Silver Spring resident Carole Ann Barth started Heal Earth Gardens, a sustainable landscape consulting business, to help people answer, “How green can you grow?” She will give a lecture on conservation landscapes at the U.S. Botanic Garden on Aug. 22. For more information, go to usbg.gov/education/events.

Credo - Ted Leonsis

337 days ago - Do you consider yourself of a specific faith?

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Some area teens are pleased with paucity of summer jobs

342 days ago - Economists have determined 2008 to be the worst summer since World War II for teenage employment, but for those with an aversion to flipping burgers and a penchant for poolside indolence, it’s proven to be a godsend.

As scores improve, racial achievement gap persists in Montgomery schools

344 days ago - Sweeping efforts in recent years to close the racial achievement gap in Montgomery County schools have resulted in higher standardized test scores for nearly all students. But hidden within the ranks of those who pass, the same old disparities exist.

Montgomery universal preschool gains ground

346 days ago - Young children in Montgomery County may soon be stepping out of sandboxes to join their older peers in the classroom as lawmakers take steps to provide free schooling and child care for all 4-year-olds.

Students flock to online classes, easing transportation costs

347 days ago - Online classes are gaining popularity at area schools as students and officials realize that time at a home computer offers flexibility without costing upward of $4 per gallon.

Math whiz says district’s failure to fund team just doesn’t add up

350 days ago - There aren’t many equations that 17-year-old math whiz Jacob Hurwitz can’t understand. But even he can’t decipher how Montgomery County schools’ $2 billion budget does not include $10,000 to fund one of the nation’s top math teams.

U.S. isn’t fulfilling its goals in math, science education goals

350 days ago - In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite and called it an achievement “of the new socialist society.” Americans called Sputnik one high-flying reason to polish up the science and math skills of the nation’s youth.

Superintendent under fire for comments about district

354 days ago - The rapid spread of an e-mail across Montgomery County this week prompted outrage among parents who opened it to learn that school Superintendent Jerry Weast refers to his district as “the cream of the crap.”

Standardized test scores on rise in local Md. counties

356 days ago - Students in suburban Maryland improved their scores on statewide standardized test scores used to gauge progress under No Child Left Behind, according to results released today by the Maryland Department of Education.