Those low marks on math and reading tests netted earlier this year by the nation’s public school students didn’t really surprise Donna Talerico, Monongalia’s deputy schools superintendent said. School districts […]
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Keeping it current: Electric bus will begin hauling Mon students next week for pilot program
The wheels on the bus go round and round – and sometimes, the engines that make them do that are powered by electricity. That’s what happens next week in Monongalia […]
Real court, real people: W.Va. Supreme Court justices talk to Morgantown High class
Steve Blinco didn’t hold anything back in his cross-examination Tuesday morning. In front of the room, John Hutchinson and Haley Bunn, both under personal oath to deliver information, shifted a […]
U.S. Department of Education: COVID has knocked test scores to all-time lows, nationwide
West Virginia’s test scores in math and reading have taken dramatic dives over the course of the pandemic years – and so have everyone else’s. That’s according to the numbers […]
‘For dyslexics, there’s not even a life raft’
Trenton Bailey spends every day of his life using relatively simple solutions to knock back a complex issue in his life. That issue is dyslexia, a reading comprehension malady that […]
State aims to keep the learning going after high school
While scores of former students across America are working through the particulars of President Biden’s college loan forgiveness plan, high schools across West Virginia are being recognized for their role […]
Making the cut: South Middle students employ sheep brains to explore human maladies
Cutting a sheep brain in two was a lot easier than Junuh Hunt thought it would be. “It’s got a little give,” the South Middle School seventh-grader said Thursday morning, […]
Health Right receives a $25K grant for COVID, flu vaccines
Milan Puskar Health Right has journeyed long and far from its “treat-and-street” days of 40 years ago. Treat-and-street: That’s what they called it back then. Say you walked in with […]
Mylan Park aquatic center set to host U.S. diving nationals in December
With a major competition coming up in December and hopes for Olympic trials in 2024, the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park is continuing to make a big splash – in […]
Eastwood’s Amber Nichols, the state Teacher of Year, gives a lesson on her life and times
When the lieutenant colonel’s wife speaks, and you’re in a military town, you listen. Especially if said spouse is an experienced colleague – and it’s your first day on the […]
