Tagged: Mary Lou Thornton


Changes coming to government and biology HSAs

By Amy Forsbacka | Feb. 18, 2017, 8:04 p.m. | In Local »

The Maryland State Department of Education is in the process of changing the government High School Assessment (HSA) test and plans to phase out the biology HSA test next year.


MCPS Board of Education votes to eliminate high school final exams

By Eleanor Cook | Sept. 21, 2015, 1:14 p.m. | In Local »

The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education decided to do away with final exams in all high school courses beginning the 2016-2017 school year.


Partnership between Blair and Smithsonian produces anthropology class

By Zoe Johnson | Jan. 22, 2014, 5:41 p.m. | In Local »

Social studies teacher David Whitacre has developed a semester-long class on Native American current events and history that will be available next week.


Mary Lou Thornton

By Harini Salgado | June 19, 2013, 8:41 a.m. | In Teacher Feature »

"Good teachers are born to teach," Mary Lou Thornton says, sitting in her office, surrounded by books, photos and papers. Thornton, who teaches three Honors United States History classes and is the resource teacher for the Social Studies department, has been teaching for a long time. "I've been at Blair since 2004 or 2005. It's been such a long time I can't remember," she says laughing. During her time at Blair she has developed a reputation of being fun teacher with interesting classes.


Ninth grade English adopts common core standards

By Urvi Banerjee | Sept. 23, 2012, 6:53 p.m. | In Local »

The English department began implementing a curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) for ninth grade this school year.


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