MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Kids today just love to play computer games, and the West Virginia Department of Education is tapping into that love through a website called Learn21.
The site offers all kinds of games that help students in every grade l…

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Martinsburg, W.Va.
Kids today just love to play computer games, and the West Virginia Department of Education is tapping into that love through a website called Learn21 .
The site offers all kinds of games that help students in every grade level bru…

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Martinsburg, W.Va.
Kids today just love to play computer games, and the West Virginia Department of Education is tapping into that love through a website called Learn21 .
The site offers all kinds of games that help students in every grade level bru…

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A new project to turn around a rural West Virginia school district is revving up, and groups from across the country ar…

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By Diette Courrégé
As a member of West Virginia’s state board of education, Gayle Manchin was appalled in 2008 to learn that the state had been in control of the McDowell County schools for nearly a decade, with little to show for its efforts.

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Published Online: March 14, 2012

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The White House says Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach in June
The graduation will be held June 14.
Tall…

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, second from right, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, right, prepare for a town hall meeting at the Newseum in Washington that was live-streamed online as part of Digital Learning Day.
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A student at Barboursville Middle School in Cabell County, W.Va., scans an index finger to pay for a school lunch. Students in Cabell County’s other middle schools and high schools will soon be paying for their lunches through the new finger-scanning…

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About West Virginia

On October 25, 2011 By

The Mountain State, Switzerland of America – The state of West Virginia justifies its nicknames in every way. The landscape of West Virginia includes rivers, mountain ridges, picturesque scenery, and steep and rolling hills. The state has also an extremely rugged terrain.

Ranked 41st in the United States in terms of total area (24,230 square miles), [...]

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Published Online: June 30, 2011
Published in Print: July 13, 2011, as Experts: Educators Can’t Separate Common Core, State Standards
Updated: December 13, 2011

Susan Nolan, center, an English teacher at Mountain Ridge High School, in Frostburg, Md….

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