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Horizons Greater Washington always has new information to share with you. You can catch up with what is going on in our yearly newsletter and recent press releases. For a listing of Program Dates, please click here and for a listing of events, click here.

  • Horizons featured in the Washington Post

    Posted November 15, 2011

    On July 27, Horizons was featured in the Washington Post in an article titled, Slowing summer setback, which examined summer learning loss among low-income children. Click here to read the full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/summer-learning-program-seeks-to-close-opportunity-gap/2011/07/22/gIQA1JvObI_story.html

  • SAVE THE DATE!

    Posted November 15, 2011

    Politics & Prose, 5051 Connecticut Avenue, NW, hosts the sixth annual in-store book sale to support the collaboration between Maret School, St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School, and Norwood School.

  • 2010 Lynn McNaught Teacher Award Winner

    Posted November 24, 2010

    Setting goals is an important tool for measuring success in students’ academic achievement as well as for a teacher measuring her own personal career success. Therefore, when Danielle Cifelli challenged her Horizons students with goals measuring their classroom progress, she also set a goal for herself: to follow her students up each grade teaching them each summer until they graduate from Horizons in ninth grade.

  • Horizons Celebrates 10 Years

    Posted May 17, 2010

    On Saturday evening, 300 guests listened to the stories of keynote speaker District of Columbia School Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Horizons students Luiggi Garcia, Freddy and Angelica Chacon during Horizons at 10 – a celebration of the wonderful program, which began at Maret School that has benefited underserved children from the Greater Washington area for 10 years.

  • Horizons on NBC Nightly News

    Posted July 27, 2009

    On July 23, Horizons was featured on NBC Nightly News "Making a Difference" with Brian Williams. Click here to watch the segment.

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