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After preliminary plans got here in $20M excessive, Mitchell Board of Schooling to get take a look at revised highschool plans

Aug. 7—MITCHELL — The Mitchell Board of Schooling will get a take a look at a second spherical of plans for the proposed new highschool constructing when it convenes for its subsequent assembly Monday night, Aug. 8.

The assembly, which is open to the general public, will probably be held in Room 10 on the Mitchell Profession & Technical Schooling Academy. The assembly is scheduled to start at 5 pm

The board is anticipated to listen to from Robin Miller, supervisor architect for Schemmer — an Omaha, Nebraska-based structure agency with places of work in Sioux Falls that’s engaged on

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Berea teen skips high school, enrolls at Baldwin Wallace

Advice from a BW physics professor helped gifted junior high school student William Warren decide to forego high school and go straight to college.

BEREA, Ohio — One motivated local middle school student will never make it to high school. That’s because he skipped it and went straight to college! There are plenty of smart, ambitious freshman at Baldwin Wallace, but only intellectually-gifted Berea teen William Warren celebrated a 14th birthday.

Warren says for most of his life he struggled to stay engaged and fulfilled in his own school grade. It’s safe to say he is obsessed with the science

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Indiana’s and St. Joseph County’s high school graduation rate sees a slight drop

Indiana’s high school graduation rate for 2022 dipped slightly and most demographics’ rates remained stagnant, but fewer Indiana students needed a waiver to graduate compared to last year.

The Indiana Department of Education released its 2022 high school graduation rates Friday, which showed this year’s state rate dipping slightly to 86.61% compared to last year’s rate of 86.69%.

Rates in several of St. Joseph County’s largest high schools reflected statewide trends with slightly lower state graduation rates. However, others showed steady rates or even slight increases.

The new statewide graduation rates show that students are still trying to recover from

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Get to know Wisconsin football’s 2023 class

The early signing period opened on Wednesday, and with it came 14 signees for the Badgers in the class of 2023.

Luke Fickell did a lot with only a little bit of time as the new Badger head coach landed significant flips, a big-time quarterback transfer, and kept a number of Badger targets in Madison who were offered by the previous era.

In total, Wisconsin has 14 signees and a key transfer coming into Madison this season. The signees range from west coast to east coast while elementally being heavily rooted in the midwest.

Here is a look at all

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Coconut Orange Breakfast Bars – JennifersKitchen

Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free, Oil-Free Coconut Breakfast Bars

One thing I do not do:

Spend more than 10 minutes in the morning preparing breakfast. When it’s breakfast time, I want to eat – not measure, stir, cook, chop, or bake.

That means that make-ahead breakfasts are a regular part of my meals. Preparing breakfast ahead of time means that either my crockpot or my freezer always has something delicious waiting for me in the morning.

Like these Coconut Orange Breakfast Bars.

Naturally sweet, these Coconut Orange Breakfast Bars are packed with both flavor and nutrition. And they’re freezer-friendly, so you can have a stash in the freezer for

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NY state officials want schools to say how they are teaching the Holocaust

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with teens across the world to report on issues that impact their lives.

(JTA) — Sasha Bandler and Josh Davis feel lucky to have learned about the Holocaust directly from survivors, but this wasn’t part of any formal education. The high school seniors found the Holocaust lessons at their Long Island schools inadequate.

“We’ve learned very little about the Holocaust aside from a general outline of what happened,” said Davis, a student at Great Neck South High School. “In AP World History, my class spent

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Team teaching is breaking the mold of high school education

MESA, Ariz. — There are plenty of negative trends showing up in education across the country. Student test scores are down and teachers are leaving the profession in droves. But, there is positive change happening too. There is a new kind of classroom that’s hoping to make the school more engaging for teachers and students.

“I can only describe it as magical,” said Jenny Denton, who teaches world history at Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona. “We work together really well.”

Denton is one of three educators overseeing a class of 100 students. It’s an initiative introduced this year

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The way ahead for higher education | columnists

Higher education in Indiana is facing a turbulent future. Fewer Hoosiers are graduating from high school, and a declining percentage are going on to college. There are many reasons, including the pandemic, a strong job market, high sticker prices, growing student debt and a belief that many good jobs don’t require a college degree. The bottom line is that higher education needs to change, and fast.

What are colleges and universities to do?

First and foremost, we need to put students first. This may sound obvious, but it can’t be taken for granted. We need to offer academic programs and

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