The Kentucky Board of Education has named four out of state applicants as finalists for commissioner of education.
When Ashley Robinson was born, she weighed a pound and 11 ounces — at the time, the smallest baby born at King’s Daughters Medical Center who survived. Her arrival was even featured on the front page of The Independent.
The Rose Hil Christian School Drama will present "The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree" at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Kyova Mall.
Will Judd always knew he would work for NASA.
It’s never too early to learn.
Students in Michael Doran’s study skills class took extra care drawing their graph paper diagrams.
A student project at Wurtland Middle School is bubbling over with success.
The frogs that sixth-graders dissected in Beverly McDavid’s science class may not make it to the afterlife, but it won’t be for lack of preparation.
To the kids it was just another play day.
Heads bent low over their work table, the three girls crunched financial numbers for a lemonade stand.
Students in the after-school program at Worthington Elementary got a hands-on lesson in weather and meteorology on Thursday.
The Boyd County Board of Education has selected an architectural firm to design a new high school.
A tap on the keyboard sent a pixilated rodent on a frenetic quest for gold rings, while Dustin Thompson tried vainly to explain computer coding to a visitor.
Doomsday talk about skyrocketing tuition is overblown and college remains affordable for most Kentuckians, the new president of the state Council on Postsecondary Education said Thursday.
It was a head-over-heels return to his old school.
Fairview High School theater students perform "Bye, Bye Birdie" this week with five shows at the elementary school.
Looking back, members of the Boyd County Middle School archery team say it is interesting to see how far they’ve come since the early days when they were “excited just to be shooting.”
The embattled Russell High School academic team fared well in the two of the state Governor’s Cup events for which it was eligible.
A local teacher has had the honor of appearing on the cover of the March issue of Kentucky Teacher, a magazine published by the Kentucky Department of Education for teachers, school administrators, parents and others with education concerns.
Waiting for the ambulance can be agonizing.
Monday was the day when everyone likes green eggs and ham.
A collaborative effort between area school districts, colleges and medical facilities aimed at improving the health of local children kicked off last week.
It’s fun to play dead.
The Russell High School academic team received the top overall
score at the Governor¹s Cup regional competition last week.
Paul G. Blazer came in second, West Carter was third, Boyd County fourth and Greenup County fifth.
The governing body of the Governor’s Cup competition has banned Russell’s academic coach and most of the academic team’s scores in the regional competition won’t be counted.
Matt Knupp has been suspended as Russell High School academic coach pending the outcome of an investigation of actions that led to the postponement of the written assessment portion of Saturday’s regional Governor’s Cup competition at Boyd County High School.
School mascots. You’ve seen them — students suited up in goofy, big-headed animal costumes, clowning for the home-team crowd.
Unusual questions were being asked Saturday during the regional Governor�s Cup academic competition at Boyd County High School, although the inquiries and answers weren�t on any student�s test.
The costumes Dathan Hooper pulled out of the plastic bin were a motley collection of funny hats, scarves and masks.
Standing up in front of a room full of kids you see every day and reciting a poem is tough.
The idea came after Catherine Delvalle saw a teenager sitting in front of a computer, texting on a cell phone with one hand and adjusting the earbuds of an MP3 player with the other hand.
Actor and Ashland native Steve Kazee will die next week.
The Paramount Arts Center brought a learning performance to the stage Tuesday with the Bi-Okoto African Dance and Drum, a Cincinnati group that took area school children through the music of seveeral African countries.
The 40 minutes they spend together every Friday morning may be the most important in the week for the eight teachers sitting around a conference table — and there’s not a single student in the room.
President-elect Barack Obama may think he has enough to wrestle with already: A tanking economy, two wars that have been dragging on for years, a broken health care system, global warming and a still-polarized Congress.
A new game has captured Wurtland Middle School by storm.
It combines elements of the popular teen craze Dance Dance Revolution with the arcade staple Whack-a-Mole.
The curtain dropped Thursday night at the Adkins-Caudill Performing Arts Center on the final run of “Still Life With Iris.”
You’d never tuck one in your bag to read at the beach.
Two years ago, Lauren Burgess was fresh out of college and wondering what kind of job she could get with her Spanish and English degrees.
“It’s on page 170.”
Evan Holbrook won’t even try to pretend the inclusion of his short story in an anthology doesn’t excite him.
Eighty Kentucky high school bands, including three from northeastern Kentucky, advanced last weekend from the quarterfinals of the Kentucky Music Education Association State March Band Championship to the semifinal round.
It was an all-day variety show with a rotating cast, a potpourri of singing, dancing, comedy and drama.
Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2008 as the number of students taking the exam jumped by 9 percent compared to last year.
Students at Fallsburg Elementary School will join others from several states, Canada and Mexico in a project to track the migratory patterns of monarch butterflies.
The intermediate grades — fourth and fifth — are separated by a hallway from the primary ones at Greysbranch Elementary School.
Mayor Steve Gilmore will be Ashland’s new school superintendent.
Steve Gilmore will give up his mayoral post when he takes over as superintendent of Ashland schools.
Competition was fierce among students Saturday at the Governor’s Cup regional competition for elementary students at Russell-McDowell Intermediate School
By uttering a single word, Claire Lyon triggered a wild celebration on Saturday.
Fairview eighth-graders have been poking their noses into every corner of their campus, asking questions about energy usage, recycling, safety and health. Then they’re developing plans to use less energy, do more recycling and improve safety and health.
Birds push their young from downy nests into a sky criss-crossed by eagles.
Seals nudge theirs across the ice and into the frigid Arctic sea.
Wolves nudge cubs from the den into trackless wilderness.
None of them sheds a tear.
Some things we take for granted in school.
The chairmen of the House and Senate budget committees said Thursday that lawmakers should resist cutting education when putting together a state spending plan for the next two years amid sluggish revenues.
Surprise! The state budget crunch which new Gov. Steve Beshear has been talking about is likely to result in higher tuition costs for Kentucky college students.
Ashland Community and Technical College has set another record enrollment.
There was little suspense and even less surprise. As expected, the Kentucky Board of Education selected northern Kentucky Republican legislator Jon Draud as Education Commissioner at a special called meeting Sunday afternoon.
Kentucky's new education commissioner, unlike predecessors who were chasing distant goals, will face the looming task of leading the state closer toward completing its education reform movement started nearly 20 years ago.
Getting started on the banjo is easy, said Pete Wernick, who has played with Earl Scruggs and other greats.
Sitting on a sectional couch on the Rent to Own sales floor on U.S. 60, James Hancock kept his eyes on assistant manager Ed Rogers, ignoring the din from the Grand Theft Auto game on the giant-screen TV across the store.
Marching bands from Russell High School, Paul G. Blazer High School and Rowan County High School are among 80 throughout the state to qualify for the Kentucky Music Educators Association State Marching Band Championships semifinal round.
NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
With the advice of highway engineers, eighth-grade science students at West Carter Middle School learned last week they can build surprisingly sound structures from toothpicks and gumdrops.
A half-century after the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools, sharply divided justices clamped new limits Thursday on local school efforts to make sure children of different races share classrooms.
A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt -- more than a century ago.
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious -- students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other.
For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."
Sitting with her back to the single bank of windows in the high-ceilinged studio, Joey Brown coaxed an image from the blackened sketch pad propped in front of her.
Brown and nine other students scattered around the studio glanced occasionally at a jumble of draperies in front of them under the glare of a single light.
The occasional rasp of erasers on paper punctuated the quiet as images slowly emerged on the pads.
The only previous experience Alisa Borders had in archery was a gym class she had to take in college. She never thought she’d be coaching fourth- and fifth-graders in the sport.
The state’s first Academy of Mathematics and Science is taking applications.
For many students, American history, like many of the actors that shaped it, is a dead subject.
Not so in the classroom of Pat Smith.
Solving community problems is hard work.
A group of Wurtland Middle School eighth-graders found that out recently when it put on a night of family fun at the school.
While students are learning to read a teacher is learning to teach at Charles Russell Elementary.
Balanced on a stepladder, Chris Payne fed a length of red cable through a bracket and stapled it in place.
Ask elementary students what their favorite food is and shouts of “Pizza!” is probably the answer you’d get.
That’s why Chef Parmesan and Derby the horse use pizza as an example in a traveling hands-on learning program called “Agriculture Adventures: Kentucky,” which is designed to teach students the importance of agriculture in their everyday lives.
The three Rs were joined by a W last week in Ashland city schools.
As part of a health initiative, students from kindergarten to high school were urged to add walking to their reading, writing and arithmetic — walking to school, that is.
She didn’t think it was for real. Who gets an invitation to Russia in the mail every day anyway? After a little research, she discovered that the letter she received on May 9 was indeed legitimate. Now, Elaine Preston, a teacher at Hatcher Elementary School, is headed to St. Petersburg, Russia, on Nov. 3.
In the vast world of cyberspace it’s sometimes hard to find information to fit one’s needs. Finding innovative and educational Web sites for elementary students can be especially challenging.
Just because the bell rings at 3 p.m. doesn’t mean learning time is over. At least not at three local schools providing after-school programs for their students.
Poage Elementary School Principal Bob Blankenship is on a mission to do whatever it takes to get his students and their parents to buckle up.
A competitive actor, Terry Salyer said, possesses the “triple threat.” That is, the ability not only to act but to sing and dance as well. An actor who masters the “triple threat” is more likely to get the part he or she is vying for.
Teachers and students headed back to school Monday in the Boyd County School District, and for a handful of the system’s 275 teachers, it was a special day — their first as teachers.
The following 2006 Paul G. Blazer High School graduates had received these scholarships as of late May:
What’s hot in back-to-school fashion is dictated by what kids think is cool.
The following 2006 graduates of Russell High School received the following scholarships and awards:
