The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission recently announced the recipients of its 2024-25 Campus Mental Health Grants, which aim to address the mental health needs of students at West Virginia’s public colleges and universities. Two area programs receiving grants will be ...
West Virginia University Extension’s Energy Express program has been awarded a $50,000 Sparking Early Literacy Growth grant, a statewide initiative to enhance literacy instruction for elementary-aged children. The grant was made possible by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative ...
If you want to know just what those educator mini-grants did for classrooms across north-central West Virginia last year, take your seat for some quick capsules. There was that lesson plan on Vietnam in one room — which led to a class field trip to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in ...
Online threats delivered to Preston High School and Central Preston Middle School on Thursday prompted district officials to lock down the two buildings before eventually releasing students early. All extracurricular activities for the evening were also canceled. Meanwhile, threats of ...
Fifteen area high school seniors are now in elite academic company. They were named semifinalists for the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program, the organization announced Wednesday. This is the 70th year for the program, which will award 6,870 scholarships totaling more than $25 ...
If you have a daughter with lofty dreams, Sept. 28 just might be her day. That’s the date of the third-annual Girls in Aviation Day at the Robert C. Byrd National Aerospace Education Center in Bridgeport. It’s an easy flight plan, says the Mountain State Chapter of Women in Aviation International, the gathering’s sponsor. The goal of the mentoring organization and the day is to introduce young women to aviation and avionics, fields that can vector in six-figure paychecks — especially for the people who know how to take the plane off the runway and put it into the ...
