Education News Archive - January 16, 2007

By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun Jan. 16--Johns Hopkins University researchers have concluded that expanding elementary schools to sixth, seventh and eighth grades does not help adolescents do better academically -- a finding that raises questions about changes in Baltimore and other urban districts.

By ERIC HSU, STAFF WRITER ENGLEWOOD - Fourth-grader Shaylah Brewer is reading a story she helped write about a ship's captain whose boat has run aground on the rocks.