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Preston teachers, board discuss mastery learning

KINGWOOD — Mastery learning and whether Preston High should have been mandating continued to be discussed at this week’s Preston County Board of Education meeting. Teachers told the board they weren’t given time to adequately prepare for the switch to mastery learning and its ...

OLLI announces annual Irving Goodman Lecture

Newsroom@DominionPost.com The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at West Virginia University  announced  its 14th annual Irving Goodman Lecture for 2020 is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday online.  Taking advantage of this year’s  circumstances, OLLI  expanded this educational opportunity and created a two-day event around the theme,  “Elders as Activists,” exploring and celebrating the importance of older adults making their voices heard. The event will open Monday with a keynote address by Libby Traubman titled,  Re-Fired, Not Retired: Elder ...

Charter application gets failing grade from Mon BOE

Click here to read more about the Preston Board of Education's response The application for what would have been the first charter school in the state was given a failing grade Monday by the Monongalia County Board of Education.BOE members voted unanimously to deny the application put ...

Preston Board of Education denies charter school application

Click here to read more about the Monongalia County Board of Education's response KINGWOOD — The Preston County Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to deny a charter school’s application. West Virginia Academy, Ltd., sought approval from both the Preston and Monongalia ...

WVU engineer wins third R&D 100 award

Bhattacharyya receives global recognition WVU Today  A novel modeling and optimization framework intended to support the United States energy industry developed in part by a West Virginia University engineer  received global recognition for its capabilities to address the nation’s need for clean energy reliably and efficiently.  Debangsu Bhattacharyya, GE Plastics Professor of chemical and biomedical engineering in the Statler College, as part of the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Institute for Design of Advanced Energy Systems team,  won the ...