by Yvette Walker KANSAS CITY, Mo. — I know, I was a weird kid. Born during the time when parents bought sets of World Book or Britannica encyclopedias, I was the girl who would sit down and read the dictionaries that came with the set. Hey, I was a latchkey kid and had a couple of ...
by Susan Minichiello I see misinformation all the time. Scrolling through Instagram, I saw a musician I follow sharing false posts about the Israel-Hamas war. Out to eat at a restaurant, a server making friendly small talk shared true crime content she finds online — while rattling ...
Last week, we talked about the results of several national and international standardized tests. While standardized tests are good for comparing large groups to each other, they are terrible mechanisms for measuring an individual student’s understanding. One problem is standardized tests ...
MORGANTOWN — The Senate bill to help ensure students are proficient in reading and math when they finish the third grade cleared its second hurdle on Wednesday, with the Finance Committee sending an expanded version to the full Senate. SB 274 is called the Third Grade Success Act. Its ...
MORGANTOWN -- The book-loving members of The Literary Society are old souls, even if most of them are just 16 or 17, tops. Those old souls are reaching out in a literacy-promoting event this week in Morgantown, but first, some backstory. Around twice a month or so, the society, whose ...
The 2021 Power of the Purse fundraiser was the third-and-most-successful one yet. As with most other events in 2020, COVID-19 cancelled the fundraiser, but more than 200 women were able to attend in-person this year, said Sabrina Cave, co-chair of Women United, which hosts the event. Cave ...