by Jonathan Zimmerman Our long summer vacation is a relic from an agricultural past when kids were needed for seasonal work on farms — or so we’ve been told. Since that’s no longer the case, we should lay the three-month summer break to rest, right? We’ve heard that argument ...
The national test considered the gold standard of whether schoolchildren are gaining or slipping has delivered alarming news: Kids are backsliding in both math and reading. Thirteen-year-olds assessed in the fall of 2022 scored about the same in reading as those who took the test in 1971, ...
MORGANTOWN – While the Dunbar School Foundation Stop program has ceased operating, questions remain about items bought or rented with taxpayer dollars. We reported on June 7 that a tour of the COVID testing and vaccine program's High Street Fairmont headquarters revealed three vaccine ...
MORGANTOWN – The Dunbar School Foundation Stop program has apparently ceased operation. DSF president Houston Richardson said early Friday that he learned Thursday evening that Stop would be turning over the keys to its High Street Fairmont headquarters to him; and confirmed later Friday ...
MORGANTOWN – The Dunbar School Foundation has given the DSF Stop program until June 11 to pay past-due rent or vacate its headquarters in the former Dunbar School cafeteria at the edge of downtown Fairmont. DSF President Houston Richardson said Stop – a COVID-19 testing and vaccination ...
by Jakub Hlávka and Adam Rose The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will reach $14 trillion by the end of this year, our team of economists, public policy researchers and other experts estimate. That makes it by far the costliest disaster the country has ...