MORGANTOWN — It ain’t easy picking out a back-to-school backpack. Particularly when there are about 1,400 of them laid out before you. What color? How big? Designs, […]
Education
Specialized seminars help train counselors to help students prepare for life
Educators from across West Virginia were talking about school capacity Thursday in Morgantown. Just not the infrastructure kind. The discourse didn’t have a thing to do with […]
From baking to blowtorches: Summer Snowflake program allows students to experience variety of trades
No, it has nothing to do with the blood product. Jamiere Evans wields a mean plasma cutter, and the student who will be a freshman at University […]
WVU Physics Department hosts first Community Physics Festival
MORGANTOWN — Fifty years ago on Saturday, one giant step for mankind was made when Neil Armstrong walked on the surface of the moon. In the same […]
Eastwood Elementary students participate in summer reading program
MORGANTOWN –Willow Bear, Eastwood Elementary School’s mascot, met students out front of the Stewartstown Community Building on Tuesday for the summer program, “Willow Goes Wild,” where kids […]
Mon BOE discusses how county expansion affects schools
MORGANTOWN — WestRidge, work orders and what happens when the person who takes care of “that thing,” retires or goes on vacation. So went Tuesday night’s special […]
Appointments for kindergarten registration being taken for Aug. 12
If your kid is old enough for kindergarten in Monongalia County and you still haven’t registered for fall, you have one more chance to make the grade. […]
ECRISP program aims to help teachers deal with classroom stressors
Pop quiz: What is the category on a teacher evaluation form that can cause the sweat glands on the palms of novice educators to rain just like […]
Kids participate in steel drum workshop in preparation for Friday concert
MORGANTOWN — A calypso counterpoint of Caribbean chords filled the Marilla Center Tuesday afternoon as students learned the notes to songs for a concert planned for Friday. […]
State Superintendent of Schools says calls to lobbyist weren’t threatening
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s superintendent of schools responded to a federal lawsuit that contends he tried to have a lobbyist fired by a national standardized testing company. […]
