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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine introduced the Preparing and Retaining Education Professionals (PREP) Act to address teacher and principal shortages, especially in rural communities.
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Governor Ralph Northam has awarded high school innovation grants to 10 school divisions to develop or implement programs that align with graduation requirements.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded $1 million to James Madison University to strengthen the school’s ability to engage students of all backgrounds in science.
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Governor Ralph Northam announced that Virginia has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to expand the Commonwealth’s efforts to recruit retired and retiring veterans for second careers as teachers.
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A total of $59,000 in funding for faculty-student summer research projects has been awarded to 17 Bridgewater College students who will live and work at the college throughout the summer.
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Staunton City Schools has honored as its 2018 Teacher of the Year Donte’ Montague, a fourth-grade teacher at A.R. Ware Elementary School.
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The Waynesboro Family YMCA and Waynesboro Public Schools have partnered to coordinate a Summer Enrichment Camp for teacher-referred youths from Wenonah Elementary School and William Perry Elementary School.
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Over the last decade, education has evolved at a remarkable pace. Many of these changes are a direct result of technological influence. Just as the arrival of the internet transformed the way we acquire information, smartphones have revolutionized the way we use it.
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“Furrowed eyebrows” may not technically be a mood, but it’s how Eastern Mennonite University sophomore engineering major Ben Stutzman described the atmosphere when his team was competing in the Kryptos cryptoanalysis competition in early April.
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Leah R. Johnson, an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, part of the Virginia Tech College of Science, is using a $700,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to improve mathematical and statistical models to help fight deadly diseases.
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