Morgantown High School is one of 300 schools across the country named a finalist in the Solve for Tomorrow competition, sponsored annually by Samsung Electronics America. Samsung launched the competition in 2010 as a way to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in society, using ...
Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly remembers his days as a student at University High School, when the building was located atop Price Street, overlooking WVU’s downtown campus. “I’d take my classes in the morning at University High, then I’d walk down the hill ...
Joe Paull, the late educator and community activist, used to patiently spell it out. “It’s not easy,” Paull once told The Dominion Post. “You’re in the arena, in front of a bunch of strangers, doing something that’s not easy to do.” Paull was talking about the spelling ...
After all those low marks in reading and math assessments this fall for West Virginia’s K-12 public school students, a positive blip is now occurring on the radar as 2022 wraps to a close, Sarah Armstrong Tucker said. It comes in the form of increased enrollment this term across the ...
The pandemic pinched a communication nerve in West Virginia at its height two years ago. As COVID was then nipping at the state’s borders, Gov. Jim Justice ordered all public schools and colleges closed, in hopes of staying ahead of the contagion. For the most part, those institutions made a quick pivot to remote learning, though it didn’t take long for the gaps and deficiencies to show up, either by demographics, topography — or both. And students from all walks of the state’s educational ecosystem were mired in it. Kelly Morton, a registered nurse, is also a ...
Jim Smith, the director of MECCA 911, was on the phone with Chris McIntire, his counterpart in neighboring Marion County, when the obvious realization hit both emergency response professionals at the same time. Whoa, both said Wednesday morning. We’re getting the same call. McIntire, ...
