If you can read, the old adage in education goes, you can learn. However, teachers also love saying that if you can write, you can read — and in that order. “Writing,” as in short stories. Essays, nonfiction and memoirs, too. Anything with a narrative, really. The annual ...
As the current No. 1 high school in West Virginia — so recognized last year by U.S. News and World Report — Morgantown High School is long accustomed to seeing its name in lights. Now, the school’s MHS Foundation wants to see that translated to the now-dilapidated and closed-off ...
Not your “grandfather’s vo-tech.” That’s how John Chadwick described the proposed Renaissance Academy to members of the Monongalia County Board of Education at a meeting last June. Chadwick is an architect and project manager with the Washington, D.C., offices of the DLR Group, ...
MORGANTOWN – The House Judiciary Committee moved four Senate bills to the House floor on Thursday – and all are on first reading on the House floor on Friday. They deal with the U.S. motto, indecent exposure, sexual contact with minors and driver's license photos for voter ...
MORGANTOWN — Parenting, education, lab-grown meat and elections were among the bills the House of Delegates passed and sent to the Senate on Wednesday — Crossover Day, the deadline for bills to leave their house of origin and go to the other chamber. HB 4313 is the Parents Bill of ...
The beat of acclaim goes on for University High School’s Percussion Ensemble. “They’re pretty amazing,” UHS Director of Bands Mark Palmer said of the students who make music with drums, snares, cymbals, marimbas and xylophones. Trash cans and buckets, also. Its current ...
