Education

We speak with S. Dallas Dance, Superintendent for Baltimore County schools. We will speak to him about his experience leading Baltimore County schools since he started in mid-2012, as well as his past experience as chief middle schools officer in Houston, Texas.

We check in with the Chicago Teachers' Strike that's moved into its second week after a failed attempt to end the strike by Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and lawyers for Chicago Public Schools.

We are joined in our first hour by Baltimore City Schools CEO, Dr. Andrés Alonso. He gives us an update on the state of Baltimore's schools and what we should expect out of this school year.

In the aftermath of the shooting at Perry Hall High School, we take a look at violence in our schools and what can we do about it. We are joined by:

Today, members of the Intersection join us to talk about the state of Baltimore City schools and how they are using media to address their issues with infrastructure. The Intersection is a non-profit that trains teens in community-organizing.

Education advocates in Baltimore say that over 70% of Baltimore public schools are in need of major renovation or replacement.  Some of them join us this hour to discuss efforts to allocate funding to improving Baltimore school facilities, which will take an estimated 2.8 billion dollars.  Our guests are Terrel Williams, teacher at Holabird Academy, Briana Wills, senior at Baltimore Freedom A

Nancy Grasmick, the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, is the longest serving State Superintendent in the country.  She's retiring at the end of this school year, and she joins us in the studio to talk about her legacy after 20 years of heading up the Maryland school system.

Today Maryland Schools Superintendent of Education Nancy Grasmick announced that she will be stepping down at the end of June.  Having served as Superintendent for 20 years, she is the nation's longest-serving education chief.  We're joined by two reporters who have covered Grasmick's tenure in office to discuss her legacy and her decision to leave office.
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KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Charter Schools came to Baltimore in 2002 with the founding of the Ujima Village Academy, a middle school serving mostly low income students.  They've since expanded with an elementary school, KIPP Harmony Academy.  They have some of the highest performing students in the school system, with the Ujim

Today the Marc Steiner Show takes on the silver screen!  Latoya Peterson, editor of racialicious.com, and Darryl Wharton-Rigby, writer/producer and former writer for Homicide, join us to discuss last night's awards.

We're joined by Howell S. Baum, author of the new book Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism.  Why has segregation continued in Baltimore's schools over fifty-five years after legal school segregation was outlawed?

In this week's edition of Your Money Matters, Robin McKinney, Director of the Maryland CASH Campaign, discusses teaching financial literacy in public schools.

First, another installment of Your Money Matters.  We talk to Sherry Bender from MECU about credit cards, and what you can do to manage credit card debt and use credit wisely.

We start the hour with a breif update on Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon: a new hearing on the gift card misappropriation case will take place on January 6th 2010 and her sentencing for the existing indictment is set for January 21th. Stay tuned for further details as they develop.

In our first hour, we discuss the role of race in education and how we assist youth in building healthy identities and relationships when they are at their most vulnerable. How can we get children the tools they need for positive outcomes in such a deeply divided system?