For the past two decades, education pundits and others have been worrying about what they say is the scourge of “grade inflation” in America’s high schools. Grade inflation is exactly […]
Author: Jim Bissett/ The Dominion Post
‘Solve for Tomorrow’ contest launched by Samsung: Morgantown High was a national finalist last year
Contented, stable living through STEM? Samsung Electronics America hopes so. That’s because the Solve for Tomorrow contest has again clicked over for 2023. Samsung launched the competition in 2010 as […]
All in the family: The Pride program of Pierpont College receives a special gift
FAIRMONT – Cars and trucks cruising down nearby Interstate 79 told the tale. That is, you can’t get where you need to go – if you don’t have the means. […]
Deep roots: Blaney family has nearly 250 years of farming history in Mon
Moos and aahs. Bruce Blaney knows how to draw a crowd. He gathered a pretty sizable one, in fact, when he ducked around the fence at his Ringgold Farms expanse […]
United Way keynote speaker: ‘Poor’ doesn’t mean ‘lazy’
Amy Jo Hutchison got a standing ovation at the Community Leaders’ Breakfast for the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties on Friday morning – and that response echoed back […]
‘Mini-grants’ to area educators offered by Your Community Foundation
Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia is going back to school. The nonprofit, outreach organization is now offering an opportunity for educator “mini-grants” of up to $750 — […]
Renaissance Academy: ‘Not your grandfather’s vo-tech’
Work has begun in earnest prepping the site that could be home to the Renaissance Academy, a planned $72 million facility dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math pursuits for […]
Mon students go back to school
One broken arm on the playground. One cracked wall in a library. A handful of snarled bus routes. And scores of smiling, happy faces. So went the first day of […]
Local contractor wants to (re)make history in Greenmont
This is a story about possibly the oldest rental property in Morgantown. Which, naturally, begins with the discovery of an empty whiskey bottle in another house, not quite as old, […]
State Board of Ed on stalled test scores: ‘We can, and must, do better’
The aftermath of COVID-19 still continues to cast a long shadow over West Virginia’s public education fortunes. That was evident this past week in Charleston, when the state Board of […]
