Author: CM

Leaving Academia to Teach

Written By Lisa Breslin After nine years as a college professor, Dr. Roxanna Harlow decided to leave the classroom. It was then, she said, that she finally felt like a teacher. Harlow, 39, grew up in a diverse Chicago...

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Giving Back to the Community

Written By Sherwood Kohn Megan Webb is very talented and very grateful. For openers, the 30-year-old, tall, wiry Westminster housewife and mother of two, who has only a high school education and hardly any formal training as a...

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Digging For History

Photos by: Phil Grout The history of Manchester and northern Carroll County is slowly being rewritten by a team of archaeologists who are finding evidence that humans lived there 3,000 to 6,000 years ago. Led by Stephen Israel,...

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Does the Numbers Game Work?

Written By Sherwood Kohn Monetary rewards for good grades actually work. I have seen average students strikingly improve their report cards for a few bucks. The incentive that money provides is effective in encouraging children...

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