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New statewide standards for assessing a student’s college and career readiness require that a student demonstrate certain academic proficiencies by the end of their 10th grade year, in order to access ...

As the first state to require service learning to graduate — a 75-hour volunteering mandate adopted in 1992 — Maryland has long had a reputation as a place that prepared young people well for civic ...