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James River Day School: “We do what is best for the child”

Issue: January 2012 by .

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“Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – Sir William Haley Located in Lynchburg is a school which prides itself in [...]

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Hutcherson Early Learning Center: Leading the Way for Inclusive Learning Environments for Students with Disabilities

Issue: December 2011 by .

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau One of the primary goals of school systems everywhere is making sure that all children have access to the best possible education. The Hutcherson Early Learning [...]

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Genworth’s EverFi Program Teaches Financial Aptitude to Local Students

Issue: September 2011 by .

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“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”- Oscar Wilde “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 [...]

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Appomattox County Schools’ New Swipe K12 aims to raise attendance and safety

Issue: August 2011 by .

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Safety in our schools is a relevant issue. Incidences that occur at school, while rare, make national headlines. School safety is a topic approached differently throughout the schools surrounding Lynchburg. Appomattox County Public Schools has a new system for tracking student attendance that will be implemented with the coming school year, which it hopes will [...]

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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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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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