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Junior Achievement of Central Virginia: Empowering Entrepreneurialism in Local Students

Issue: July 2011 by .

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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” -Henry Ford There is an organization that exists to provide students with a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability when it comes to [...]

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Mary Bethune Academy: Lynchburg’s Oldest Childcare Center Still Alive and Relevant

Issue: June 2011 by .

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Located on 2249 Halifax Street, one block from the campus of Virginia University of Lynchburg is the oldest childcare center in Lynchburg. The Mary Bethune Academy (MBA) is named for Mary McLeod Bethune, African American educator, civil rights leader, advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt and founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The MBA [...]

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Bedford Primary School to Close Amidst Controversy

Issue: May 2011 by .

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School board members for Bedford County Public Schools and parents of students have found themselves caught in a heated debate over budget cutbacks and decisions for school closings this year. On March 31, the school board unanimously voted to close Bedford Primary School in efforts to meet financial and educational goals, according to Superintendent Dr. [...]

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Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg to Close Its Doors

Issue: April 2011 by .

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For the past 26 years, it has been a beacon of the arts in Lynchburg; a school that has given students aspiring to be professional dancers the opportunity to flourish. But on May 28, the Virginia School of the Arts (VSA) plans to close its scholastic doors indefinitely, citing financial struggles. “Our enrollment had dropped [...]

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New CVCC President’s Eyes on Leadership

Issue: March 2011 by .

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“Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for [...]

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Successful Innovations, Inc.—Bringing Parental Involvement in Education Front and Center

Issue: January 2011 by .

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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric. -Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Huntsman, What Quarry?” 1939 Education is not a simple [...]

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Elizabeth’s Early Learning Center

Issue: December 2010 by .

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“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” -Jean Piaget “Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the [...]

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E-books: Textbook Take-over?

Issue: November 2010 by .

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“There is at least this much agreement among intelligent persons of both schools of educational thought. The educational system must move one way or another, either backward to the intellectual and moral standards of a pre-scientific age or forward to ever-greater utilization of scientific method in the development of the possibilities of growing, expanding experience.” [...]

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Reading is Power Gets Students to Open More Books

Issue: October 2010 by .

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‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is [...]

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Camp Kum-Ba-Yah: A Place for All Children

Issue: September 2010 by .

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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has [...]

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