Education - The owners of Washington Harbour, a Georgetown waterfront dination that includes offices, posh condominiums and raurants, are selling the property along the Potomac River amid a growing vacancy rate.
Education - In the 2008 presidential elections, Kamran Atri, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who lives in Stafford, brought his daughter Selina, now 9, into the voting booth with him. She helped him mark his selection, and he made a deal with her: Clean your room and you can become a citizen.
Education - The guy behind the meat counter is looking at Reed Sandridge kind of strangely. Giving away $10 every day to a stranger -- an idea Sandridge had soon after he was laid off from his job at a Washington nonprofit group last fall -- isn't as easy as it sounds.
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Education - This word has appeared in 47 Times articles over the past year.
Education - Success stories from a non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay area that pairs scholarship recipients with mentors who insure that money is well spent.
Education - On my blog, washingtonpost.com/class-struggle , I gush over my many genius ideas, worthy of the Nobel Prize for education writing if there was one. Here is a sample from last month:
Education - Even before he could read, Aaron Kamins was fascinated with books. Kamins was 21 when he died of cancer two years ago, and his mother is keeping his memory alive at Whetstone Elementary School by helping spread his love of reading.
Education - President Obama moved closer to achieving one of his top policy goals Thursday as congressional Democrats joined forces behind a bill that would cut funding to private student lenders and redirect billions of dollars in expected savings into grants to needy students.
Education - CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- A teacher at a failing Rhode Island school where he and all his colleagues were fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.