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By Jeff Jenkins
MetroNews
West Virginia School Building Authority Executive Director Mark Manchin told MetroNews Monday he expects to become the next school superintendent in Harrison County.
“I understand that Wednesday evening the offer will be made,” Manchin said. “And if the offer is made Wednesday evening I will accept.”
The Harrison County Board of Education is scheduled to meet Wednesday evening.
Manchin has been leading the SBA since 2006 when he...
By Sarah Harmon, Staff Writer
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
MOUNDSVILLE - Woody Yoder, curriculum director of Marshall County Schools, believes the key to helping children struggling to learn is a teacher's comprehensive knowledge of the unique qualities of his or her students.
According to Yoder, the county's implementation of the Support for Personalized Learning program has given teachers the tools to keep track of students who have difficulty...
By Douglas Imbrogno
The Sunday Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Textbooks were famously a line in the sand in culture wars that shook Kanawha County in the early 1970s. Trey Kay documented "The Great Textbook War," the title of his award-winning public radio documentary about the subject, which was honored with the Peabody, Murrow and duPont awards.
Textbooks remain a flashpoint for all kinds of cultural and social issues and Kay is back with a new radio documentary, "...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel
PARKERSBURG - A chemistry teacher at Parkersburg High School will be the guest of U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., at President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Judith Winans is a chemistry teacher at Parkersburg High and was the 2014 Wood County Teacher of the Year. She has taught school for 26 years.
Obama, a Democrat, is in his second term as chief executive. The speech begins around 9 p.m.
By Joselyn King and Sarah Harmon, Staff Writers
The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
Local school districts seek ways to make up for lost instruction days as frosty weather has hit the Ohio Valley several times this winter, bringing icy roads and below-zero temperatures that make it unsafe for students to travel to their classrooms. They'll have to get even more creative as the weekend's blanket of snow and the coming polar deep freeze will keep children home from school....