Education News – B. A. Birch
“Pending a vote, the Howard County, Maryland board of education is set issue a new schedule for their middle schools that will drop traditional reading classes….Under the new schedule, all Howard County middle schools would have a 50-minute, seven-period schedule, as opposed to current variations on a 45-minute, eight-period day, writes Toth. Literacy instruction would be infused into other classes and traditional reading classes are scrapped in the new state curriculum, said Clarissa Evans, executive director of school improvement and curricular program.(more)