2008 Maryland School Assessment


MSA changes may have raised scores

State education officials acknowledged yesterday for the first time that they had changed the Maryland School Assessment this year in a way that experts say contributed to an unusually large rise in student test scores.

New attitudes foster academic success

Balto. County students post gains on the MSA

Student stabbed outside school
Coverage of the fatal stabbing of Markel Williams, 15, outside his West Baltimore middle school. A classmate, 14, has been charged in connection with the incident.
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