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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, "...
By Jennifer Smith
MetroNews
The state School Building Authority approved final funding Thursday for a 10-year, five-school deal, in McDowell County.
In 2004, the SBA set aside $100-million as part of a long-term school system improvement plan with the federal government and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers that went toward construction of much needed, new buildings.
“We built a new Riverview High School. We built a new Bradshaw Elementary, a new Southside Middle School...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- No clean water has meant no school for students across several West Virginia districts in recent weeks, and for some, no school also meant no food.
"That's why every provision has been made to adjust menus to use filtered, packaged water to prepare a quality hot meal -- instead of just serving cold lunches -- for the hardest hit, who really need a nutritious meal now," said Diane Miller, executive director of...
By Shay Maunz
Charleston Daily Mail Staff
CHARLESTON, WV -- They're back.
After a solid month in which they spent only three days in school — first because of Christmas break, then winter weather conditions and a chemical leak that tainted the region's drinking supply — Kanawha County students are finally back in school, after a two-hour delay.
In all, 12 days of school have been canceled so far this year — a drastic increase over a typical year. Last year Kanawha...