By DREW PARKER Staff Writer MOUNDSVILLE — Staff at the Marshall County Day Care Center prepare children for kindergarten and later grades each day on Barn Drive in Moundsville. However, teachers say parents have additional responsibility before taking the preschool step. Riggs worked ...
By DYLAN McKENZIE Staff Writer Many people seek out higher education to help them pursue their goals in life. While some choose to go to a traditional college or university, others might feel that their skills lie in a different direction. For those students, the Belmont-Harrison Career Center helps them to achieve their goals. The institution has two campuses, one in Harrison County and one in Belmont County. The career center offers a variety of classes to students in their junior and senior years of high school, including carpentry, culinary services, welding, marketing and ...
By JANELL HUNTER Staff Writer MARTINS FERRY — The General Equivalency Exam is an important tool for those who have not yet earned their high school diploma to advance their careers or go on to college. Many resources are available for those who want to earn their GED in Ohio and West Virginia, including practice exams and practice centers. To earn a GED in West Virginia, one must take the Test Assessing Secondary Completion exam. The exam is used to measure high school equivalency and was “developed to allow adults a ‘second opportunity’ to prove acquisition of contemporary ...
By ALAN OLSON Staff Writer To start young students off on the fast track to academic success, many schools in the area have begun integrating technology into the lesson plans of their youngest students, before increasingly technological work becomes the norm as the students get older. Marshall County public school students began implementing iPads into their curriculum as young as kindergarten, up through second grade. County Technology Coordinator Carla Garrison said the process to integrate technology into the classrooms began three years ago, with just five iPads, steadily ...
WHEELING — Woodsdale Elementary School Principal Ashlea Minch is hoping her students’ learning environment will be as exciting outside of the building as it is within the school’s walls. The school’s PTO, or parent-teacher organization, is working to collect the funding necessary to construct a new playground at the school, and plans for it have already started. Minch said the project began in October, and she hopes the playground will be a reality by the start of next school year. She commended Woodsdale Elementary School PTO Playground Committee members Kathleen Wack, ...
Getting comfortable about college is a notion that rings true at West Virginia Northern Community College. Just ask Lisa Soly, counselor and transfer coordinator at Northern. Soly is the go-to person for details about how a higher education career can begin at WVNCC and still end with a bachelor’s degree. She said, “Many students at Northern start here to get comfortable with what attending college can mean. Their ultimate goal is to transfer from Northern to a four-year university or college and they get two rewards: a chance to have personal attention that augments success and ...
