Next year, the state’s English tests could be missing one crucial component: writing. That’s the conclusion that educators are drawing after the Board of Regents weighed a proposal earlier this month to eliminate the open-ended question section of the ...
On Super Tuesday, the first votes to be registered in the presidential primaries were not in Georgia, West Virginia, or New Jersey, but in Jakarta, Indonesia--where Barack Obama spent four years of his childhood, and where early polls showed him ...
Chaim Shotkin, 9, of Ottawa, gets to be dunce for a day as other children listen to “schoolmarm” Stephanie Runckles. The one-room schoolhouse re-creation in Washington has been the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s surprise hit of the ...
From a basement in Old Town Alexandria that feels half-library, half-laboratory, Jim McCabe wears his gray hair frizzy, his Hawaiian shirts loose, and takes pride in doing the opposite of what everyone else does. Walled in by bookshelves of ...
Once upon a time, there was a little house way out in the country. Everyone called it the Little Pink House. It was bordered by two streams, and just across the dirt lane of Willard Avenue sat a dairy farm. Not far to the south, the trolley ...
Offstage, there's been the usual high school drama, and onstage there's been more of the same. It's all part of the creation of "Edit: Undo," an experimental musical that debuts tonight in a two-day run at the Kennedy Center's Theater Lab. ...
WASHINGTON--Washington is sterile. Dead. ``I feel like I live in a tiny train station village.'' Local artist Mark Jenkins says that is the problem his work seeks to solve. Like a child hunched over a make-believe town, playing ...
Babied by the three-minute narratives of MTV, reared on DVDs featuring trailers in the extras menu, and content to watch entire films online, many of today's young moviegoers are happy not to go to the movies at all. Instead, it's trailers -- and ...
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