By Rick Bryson The sound of bats hitting balls and balls being caught in the gloves of enthusiastic players can be heard in the shadows of Nationals Park. The teams generating these sounds of summer are not Nationals players, but the 15-and-under and 12-and-under teams of the RBI Wolfpack from […]
Secretary Ray LaHood celebrates reading with students, mentors
By Meg Brinckman and Ron McBee The success of 126 Amidon-Bowen students and their mentors was celebrated at an “Everybody Wins Power Lunch” in late May, highlighting the achievement of having read 1,476 books together. Mary Salander, Executive Director of EW!DC, explained the benefits of the program, in which […]
Strasburg, Harper Dazzle Boston Sportswriters
Michael Silverman’s headline in the Boston Herald was “Two National Treasures.” He wrote, “It’s rare enough to walk into a ballpark…amped about being able to finally lay eyes on not just one, but two of the best and brightest young talents in the entire game. What’s absolutely unheard of is […]
St. Augustine’s Previews Thurgood Marshall Documentary
By Floyd Nelson, Jr. It was a dangerous time in the United States, and it was even more dangerous to be Black and poor in the South. False imprisonment, beatings, shootings and lynchings were commonplace below the Mason Dixon Line in the 1930s and 1940s. Legal segregation — the erroneous […]
Amidon-Bowen Students Land a Big Reward
By Meg Brinckman They reported to National Harbor in the gray dawn of a Friday morning in May. Amidon-Bowen Elementary School fourth graders Andre Porter and Elijah Broadus, and fifth graders Robert Freeman and Clarence Eggleston, were up at an extra-early hour as a reward for their performance during the […]
St. Dominic Church Donation Encourages Summer Reading
By Cecilia Daly St. Dominic Catholic Church has donated 65 new books to second grade students at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School. The books cover a wide range of topics, including rain forests, sports and geology, as well as biographies of famous Americans including George Washington, Coretta Scott King and Frederick Douglass. […]
Resources Coming to Southwest Schools; Register Now
By Meg Brinckman Amidon-Bowen Principal Izabela Miller and Principal Natalie Gordon of the Jefferson Academy, which leads to the prestigious International Baccalaureate Program, have been working hard to bring resources to area public schools. Amidon-Bowen has sustained 10 percent or greater cuts in its D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) budget for […]