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View ArticleTeacher: Common Core Must Be Given Time to Develop
Barbara Zingg is a teacher at Washington High School in Charles Town, West Virginia. She primarily teaches math, but has also taught theater, classic film and even kindergarten computer. As a fourth...
View ArticleWest Virginia, We Have a Problem: Teaching 21st-Century Skills in a...
As an educator, one of the worst feelings in the world is when you open your laptop only to find that your carefully designed lesson won’t work because today, of all days, your Internet has chosen to...
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Just south of Charleston, tucked in the valleys of Appalachia, rests Welch, West Virginia, a once prosperous and thriving coal town often referred to as “Little New York.” Fifty years ago, Welch was on...
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A tide is sweeping across the nation. We are witnessing a new wave of teacher activism unfolding, state by state. West Virginia teachers were the first to stand, demanding better wages. Prior to the...
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