Georgetown's Washington Harbour on market

Source WashingtonPost by V. Dion Haynes on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

At Mount Vernon, dozens of children become U.S. citizens

Source WashingtonPost by Tara Bahrampour on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

Unemployed D.C. man giving money away to strangers to help foster kindness

Source WashingtonPost by Susan Kinzie on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

What Do You Know About Teen Depression?

What Do You Know About Teen Depression?

Source Blogs NYTimes by KATHERINE SCHULTEN on Friday, March 19, 2010

Education - Student Opinion | Tell us what you know or have learned about teenage depression, whether from experts or from personal experience. What questions do you still have?

News Quiz | March 19, 2010

Source Blogs NYTimes by SCOTT KOENIG on Friday, March 19, 2010

Education - See what you know about the news of the day.

Word of the Day | seep

Source Blogs NYTimes by THE LEARNING NETWORK on Friday, March 19, 2010

Education - This word has appeared in 47 Times articles over the past year.

A Financial Aid Package That Includes Mentoring

A Financial Aid Package That Includes Mentoring

Source Blogs NYTimes by THE EDITORS on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

High schools should dare to measure success differently

Source WashingtonPost by Jay Mathews on Friday, March 19, 2010

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:

Teacher honors son's memory by giving away books

Source WashingtonPost by Meghan Tierney on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

Obama's student loan plan moving forward with health bill

Source WashingtonPost by Nick Anderson and Alec MacGillis on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers

Source WashingtonPost by AP on Friday, March 19, 2010

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.

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