Dr. Lillian M. Lowery named new Maryland state superintendent

Posted on April 20, 2012

The Maryland State Board of Education announced Dr. Lillian M. Lowery, Secretary of Education for the Delaware Department of Education, has been selected the state’s next superintendent of schools. Dr. Lowery will take the helm of the nation’s No. 1-ranked state school system on July 1. She will succeed...
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Lunch with the Orioles 2012

Posted on April 5, 2012

April 5, 2012 Ambassador Sponsor Signature Sponsor Grand Slam Sponsor Home Run Sponsor Double Sponsors Baltimore Business Journal The Daily Record McCormick & Company, Inc. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. VPC, Inc. Single Sponsors The Baltimore Life Companies Ernst & Young LLP
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Exelon executive: 600 positions identified for cuts under merger

Posted on November 7, 2011

By Hanah Cho, Baltimore Sun Exelon Corp. has identified some 600 corporate positions that would be eliminated under a merger with Baltimore’s Constellation Energy Group, a top executive of the Chicago energy giant said Wednesday. Exelon’s chief operating officer, Christopher M. Crane, said the reductions would occur across both companies,...
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Rethinking Pre-K: Five ways to fix preschool

Posted on October 5, 2011

By Kayla Webley Take two kids, one from a low-income family, the other middle class. Let them run around and do little-kid things in their respective homes and then, at age 5, enroll them in kindergarten. Research shows that when the first day of school rolls around, the child from...
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Baltimore ranks No. 21 for top Labor Day destinations

Posted on August 18, 2011

The Baltimore Grand Prix, expected to draw 100,000 people to the Inner Harbor over Labor Day weekend, is a likely reason the city cracked this year’s list of the top 50 destinations for the summer’s last long holiday weekend. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor area ranked No. 21 on Priceline.com. The city...
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The youth unemployment bomb

Posted on August 18, 2011

By Peter Coy In Tunisia, the young people who helped bring down a dictator are called hittistes-French-Arabic slang for those who lean against the wall. Their counterparts in Egypt, who on Feb. 1 forced President Hosni Mubarak to say he won’t seek reelection, are the shabab atileen, unemployed youths. The...
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Job No. 1: Keeping Alonso

Posted on November 24, 2010

James Campbell, a former member of the Baltimore school board and senior communications manager for the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, wrote this commentary, which appeared in the November 23 issue of the Baltimore Sun. “When the Baltimore school system announced the appointment of Andrés Alonso as its new...
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GBC BioPark Update: Despite the recession, bioscience growth still percolates in Baltimore

Posted on September 1, 2010

The recession has clearly affected the recent pace of growth in the Baltimore region’s three major bioscience and research parks. But, after listening to an update that managers of the parks delivered to Greater Baltimore Committee members this week, it’s easy to also recognize that bioscience industry growth is still...
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