Academics
Fayetteville Public Schools : Schools always working to improve academic achievement
Posted: October 27, 2009 6:08 a.m.Thursday night, the Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment and Accountability team presented the annual report on student achievement in our schools. As Superintendent Vicki Thomas has noted, there are many issues that require our attention, but none is more critical than commitment to our core purpose, the education of every child in the Fayetteville Public Schools.
Driver safety accelerated at high school with grant
Posted: October 27, 2009 6:06 a.m.Fayetteville High School’s service learning program received a $2,000 grant to help promote driver safety education in the school.
Fayetteville School Calendar
Posted: October 27, 2009 6:03 a.m.TheatreSquared heralds Gala for Education
Posted: October 27, 2009 6:02 a.m.TheatreSquared announced recently its annual Gala for Education, supporting arts-in-education outreach for students and teachers throughout Northwest Arkansas. The event will be held from 7-10 p.m. Nov. 20, at Teatro Scarpino in downtown Fayetteville.
JBU students earn EPA grant for competition
Posted: October 27, 2009 5:59 a.m.A group of students at John Brown University in Siloam Springs will receive a $10,000 grant for the first phase of a project to develop plans for an affordable, sustainable solar energy water heater for the developing world.
John Brown’s NWA Advance Program recognizes students
Posted: October 27, 2009 5:56 a.m.The following area students have been named to John Brown University’s dean’s list of distinguished students from the Advance Degree Completion Program. These students are members of the Northwest Arkansas cohort group No. 5 working toward a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education.
FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Moving forward: The next steps for our high school facilities
Posted: October 20, 2009 7:02 a.m.I want to express my sincere appreciation to the voters of Fayetteville for completing the survey I sent following the Sept. 15 election regarding the high school master plan. We have heard back from more than 4,000 residents who went to the polls that day, and we are busily entering the data to generate a report for the board that we will share with you as well in the weeks to come. This survey is an important tool that will help us chart a course for the future related to capital projects.
McNair student attending D.C. leadership talk
Posted: October 20, 2009 7:01 a.m.Skylar Davis, a seventh-grader at McNair Middle School in Fayetteville is currently attending the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington. She left for the conference Saturday and returns Thursday.
Arkansas Alumni Association awards
Posted: October 20, 2009 7 a.m.The Arkansas Alumni Association announced its 2009 award recipients. All 11 honorees will be recognized during the 65th annual Alumni Awards Celebration on Oct. 30 at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House in Fayetteville.
Education Briefs
Posted: October 20, 2009 6:59 a.m.Fayetteville teens named Lead Teens Alyssa Putnam and Jessica King, students at Fayetteville High School, are among just 30 students from across the southern United States named as a new Lead Teen for the Teen Trendsetters Reading Mentor program. The youth mentoring program pairs high school students with second- and third-graders who struggle with reading for one-on-one weekly sessions.
Higher Education Briefs
Posted: October 20, 2009 6:57 a.m.The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith has selected its resident assistants for the 2009-10 school year at Sebastian Commons Apartments. Mareqette Anderson, of Prairie Grove, and Alicia Weiburg, of Farmington, were among those selected to serve.
FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS : Busy semester shows no signs of slowing
Posted: October 13, 2009 6:42 a.m.Don’t look now, but the first semester is almost halfway over. Yikes! How did that happen?
Donation to fund in-classroom grants
Posted: October 13, 2009 6:41 a.m.The Fayetteville Public Education Foundation received a $15,500 donation Friday from the Oklahoma Arkansas Kansas Education Foundation to be used to provide grants to teachers in the classrooms.
FHS students to present play ‘Harvey’ this week
Posted: October 13, 2009 6:40 a.m.The Fayetteville High School Drama Department will present “Harvey” on Friday and Saturday in the Fayetteville High School Auditorium.
Run to Remember honors former teacher
Posted: October 13, 2009 6:39 a.m.The EAST Class at Har-Ber High School is hosting the first-ever Run to Remember on Oct. 31 on the Har-Ber campus.