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:
School buses in the Ashland Independent School District will follow the following schedule when classes open Aug. 9.
Two Ashland natives have been accepted into a prestigious theater intership and are getting invaluable career experience this summer.
For Tara McKenzie, the world has been a classroom.
I like to read,” Nathan Patterson, 6, proudly announced at the Flatwoods branch of the Greenup County Public Library.
Heather Bocook, daughter of Allen and Robin Bocook of Ashland, has received several scholarships.
Maria Lee Fitzgerald, daughter of James and Garnet Fitzgerald of Catlettsburg, has been named to the president’s list for the spring semester at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.
The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has selected 14 undergraduates, including Katie Braun and Peter Frailie, as new scholars in the UK Gaines Fellowship Program.
Amber E. Ogbolu, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Francis N. Ogbolu of Ashland, has graduated with high honors from Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va.
Sara Ames Montague, daughter of Phillip and Teresa Montague of Ashland, graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in psychology from Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va., on May 13.
Kelly Wales Napier, daughter of Cody and Karen Wales of Flatwoods, graduated this month from Xavier University with a doctorate degree in clinical psychology (Psy.D.).
Georgetown College has awarded several scholarships.
Twenty sons and daughters of AK Steel employees have been selected to receive the AK Steel Sons and Daughters Scholarships worth a maximum of $16,000 each and funded by the AK Steel Foundation.
Graduate and professional students now have another option to help pay the costs of their education.
