Repealing & Replacing Common Core: West Virginia Strives for Best-Practice Education Standards

By Jessica Wintz-Adams West Virginia’s public education system has had its share of state and national headlines in recent years. When the Mountain State’s ranking in national reports is splashed across newspapers and scrolled across the bottom of screens calling it one of the country’s worst in educating public school students, fingers point in various…

The Promise of a Brighter Future

By Amy Caruthers While many youth dream of higher education, some need guidance to realize their potential. Students from Jefferson High School and Washington High School, both located in Jefferson County, were given the opportunity to reshape their vision of the future with the Re-Imagine Scholarship Program. The innovative scholarship program encourages students to begin…

West Virginia’s Creative Culture: Record Crowds Flock to West Virginia Makes Festival

By Jamie Cope For the past four years, the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) has celebrated National Manufacturing Day the first Friday in October by hosting the West Virginia Makes Festival. Each year the festival has experienced exponential growth. With 80 exhibitors and 2,000 people converging on Marshall University’s Memorial Student Center Plaza in Huntington,…