From Harford County Public Schools: Four Fallston High School students taking German with Mr. Richard Jones were recently recognized with cash awards, special ceremonies and even a trip to Germany for their works on the subject. Rachel Donohue, a junior, received third place in the American Goethe Society writing competition. Rachel’s 400-word essay in German […]
Harford County Public Library Celebrates “International Talk Like a Pirate Day”
From the Harford County Public Library: Monday, September 19 wasInternational Talk Like a Pirate Day and Harford County Public Library (HCPL) had some high seas fun all day! To highlight the library’s free Mango Languages online resource that includes a course on how to talk like a pirate, branches displayed collections of pirate books and […]
Learn How to Talk Like a Pirate at the Harford County Public Library
From the Harford County Public Library: Avast mateys! Visit any Harford County Public Library branch on Monday, September 19th to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day and learn a language, including Pirate. To promote its online language learning resource, Mango Languages, the library will have some high seas fun all day! Mango is a free […]
Harford County Board of Education: Task Forces to Study Living in a Contemporary World and World Languages Programs; Gang Policy Considered
From the Harford County Board of Education: The Board of Education of Harford County met in an open business meeting on Monday, August 8, 2011, in the Board Room of the HCPS/A.A. Roberty Building and took the following the actions or received the following presentations: – Received a presentation on the Greater Excellence in Education […]
Aberdeen Middle School Students Create ABC Books for Elementary School English Language Learners
From Harford County Public Schools: As a service learning project, Team 7A of Aberdeen Middle School created ABC books for students in the English Language Learners (ELL) program at Harford County elementary schools. The books were written by the seventh graders in their language arts classes. Ms. Montague, ELL teacher for numerous schools in the […]
Bel Air Best Buy Closes Digital Divide for Non-English Speaking Youth Through Technology Upgrades
From LASOS, Inc (Linking All So Others Succeed): Grant funding from Best Buy Children’s Foundation, Wiessner Foundation and Harford County Criminal Justice Program upgrades technology for youth program LASOS received a huge Holiday surprise when Best Buy on December 22, 2010 donated its expertise and product through Geek Squad for two computer work stations, plasma […]
Baltimore County English Bill Passes
From the office of Del. McDonough: Delegate Pat McDonough’s Baltimore County English Recognition bill passed the Baltimore County Delegation by a 13 to 7 vote. The legislation is the same as the proposal that passed the Harford County Delegation by an 8 to 0 vote. Both bills were authored and sponsored by Delegate McDonough. This […]
Wright: Craig Shows “Insensitivity to the Economic Problems” Being Caused By Illegal Immigration
From Stephen M. Wright, Candidate Harford County Executive: Dear Sir or Madam: I read with great surprise County Executive David Craig’s reaction to the unanimous passage of the “English Only” bill by the Harford County Delegation in Annapolis. His reaction demonstrates once again Mr. Craig’s insensitivity to the economic problems being caused by the liberal […]
