You've mailed the big tuition check and packed your kid off to college, but will you and your offspring get your money's worth? Here are three books that provide some answers.


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A history class in Prince George's County got an unexpected lesson this week.


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Some men get buildings named after them; others, streets. Ron Hillyer is getting a hallway.


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The federal government awarded $330 million Thursday to two groups that are developing new student assessment systems for the District, Maryland and dozens of other states in an effort to upgrade their much-maligned standardized tests.



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The D.C. government could not properly account for how it spent almost $325,000 in federal grant money intended to enhance state and local law enforcement, according to an audit report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Justice Department.


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When Sheena Rose went to register her son for kindergarten at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School , she was told there was no room. She was given a choice of three schools that her son would have to ride a bus to attend.



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The D.C. Youth Orchestra Program has operated for nearly a half-century at Coolidge High School in Northwest. Last month, the nonprofit music program moved a few miles south to Eastern High School in Northeast.


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Jeannie Kauffman and her three children represent two distinct generations of Garrett Park Elementary schoolers. Kauffman attended the school as did her daughter, Ashley, 13, who is now a seventh-grader at Pyle Middle School.


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Spurred by increasing elementary school enrollment, officials in St. Mary's County are preparing a request for state assistance to construct another elementary school.


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A Washington Post poll in August found that the D.C. schools chancellor, the public face and voice for the mayor's cornerstone issue, is such a divisive figure that politically she is a virtual wash.


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More than 200,000 Maryland students streamed back to crowded classrooms Monday as school systems dealt with growth but little money to hire more teachers.


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Each year, thousands of college students descend on Washington for unpaid internships. It can be a nerve-racking process: sending out résumés, trying to make contacts, interviewing again and again. Increasingly, many of them are finding an alternative: paying thousands of dollars to a placement company for a guaranteed spot.



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The University of the District of Columbia fall semester began last week, and that meant first-day-of-class prepping in the college's first-ever dorm.


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The D.C. mayoral race is deeply split on most issues, but everyone agrees on one thing: We must reduce the achievement gap between minority and white students. It is too bad, then, that the gap is such a mindless measure of school progress.


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More than 200,000 Maryland students are returning to school Monday morning, including in Montgomery County, the state's largest school system. It is the beginning of what will be a pivotal year for the district, and parents said they hoped to be included in decisions about a new leader for their ...


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Karen Roche began her teaching career in Loudoun County two decades ago as a fifth-grade instructor at Waterford Elementary School. She has since had teaching and administrative positions in various county schools -- most recently as principal of Aldie Elementary School. But this school year, she...



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Although the Muslim students hadn't eaten since dawn, something besides food was on their minds as they loaded plates with tandoori chicken, chickpeas and rice at American University to break their Ramadan fast.


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After two years of progress, Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's effort to narrow the vast achievement gap separating white and African American students in D.C. public schools has stalled, an analysis of 2010 test score data shows.


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