News Releases and Media Advisories

2000
	Ritalin Use In Maryland Schools Lowest For Minorities, Highest For Special Education 08/00
	Teaching Styles Make the Difference in Desegregation Outcomes 08/00
	Listen to Hopkins education experts discuss summer school, summer learning loss, and year-round schools 08/00
	National Conference at Johns Hopkins on K-12 Summer Learning 06/00
	Teen Role Models to Be Honored 05/00
	Fessler Named Dean of SPSBE 04/00
	Hopkins and Howard Sponsor Forum on School Reform 04/00
	Turning around Troubled High Schools: The Talent Development High School Model 03/00
	What's ahead for research universities in the 21st century? President William R. Brody shares his vision 01/00
	Baltimore City Students Attending Local Summer Program Make Stronger Gains than Peers, Says Hopkins Study 01/00
1999
	Disney Awards $500,000 to Hopkins' Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships 12/99
	Thomson Learning to Sell Hopkins' Interactive Learning CDs 11/99
	U.S. Renews Johns Hopkins and Howard University Project for Five Years with $36.5 Million 11/99
	U.S. Awards $27.9 Million to Hopkins Education Programs 10/99
	Thirty-two Schools Re-Open as Talent Development Schools 09/99
	When the School Day Ends: How High School Students Spend Their Time After School Can Affect Their Success In School 08/99
	Back to School Experts at Johns Hopkins 07/99
	Teen Role Models to Be Honored 05/99
	Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins Experts Available to Talk About Littleton 04/99
	Talent Loss: Why So Many of the Country's Top-Achieving Low- Income Students Never Go to College 03/99
1998
	IAAY Talent Search Seeks Country's Best, Brightest 09/98
	Learn Something New in School, Without the Homework 09/98
	Back to School Experts at Hopkins 08/98
	Summer Slide in the City: A Case for Year-round Schooling? 06/98
	Whole School Reform: Public School's Last Stand? 05/98
	Researchers, Parents and Educators in Successful Partnership 02/98
1997
	First State-wide Summit on the Role of Arts in Education to Be Held at Johns Hopkins University 12/97
	Lea Ybarra Named IAAY Executive Director 08/97
	Minority Scholars Convene at Johns Hopkins 06/97
	Biology Undergrads Use Theater to Teach Elementary School Kids 04/97
1996
	Educators to Use Space Technology in Daily Lessons 03/96
1995
	Event Highlights Students Who Turned Their Lives Around 05/95
	Brooklyn Students Succeed Using Hopkins Program 02/95
1994
	Hopkins Helps City Kids Prepare for Fall 07/94

Audio and Video Links

August 30, 2000 Videos of presentations by Johns Hopkins University researchers Geoffrey D. Borman and Karl Alexander, recorded during a recent national conference on summer learning held at Hopkins, are now available on the World Wide Web. Borman's talk offers an overview of what research has been conducted nationally on summer school and summer learning loss. Alexander gives an in-depth talk about his 28-year study on summer learning loss and its effect on the achievement gap between poor and well-off students.

March 31, 2000 How do you take a large, urban, failing high school and turn it into a safe, serious learning environment, a place where the success of every student is possible?

Media Coverage of K-12 Research at Johns Hopkins

Information to come.