While thousands of Virginia Tech students will return to the Blacksburg campus this weekend for the spring semester, only 6% of classes will be fully in-person – the same rate as the fall.
After closing campus to students and conducting the fall 2020 semester completely remotely, Randolph College will soon welcome students back to campus for the first time in over 10 months.
With growing concern about learning loss and in-person learning time, Campbell County Public Schools administrators are considering what secondary school scheduling options will allow students to make up for that lost time during the next school year.
The seven essays in this book, subtitled “In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life,” are derived from the Russian literature class that George Saunders has taught for decades at Syracuse University, examining how fiction works and why it matters. Penguin Random House, Jan. 12
Doug Doughty, who has covered sports in the Roanoke Valley since 1974, lists his top 25 college football recruits from Virginia for the unusual pandemic year.
Coach Bronco Mendenhall's class ranked just below the top 25.
How Virginia Tech's 2021 signing class took shape early in the process
The Hillcats confirmed they were one of the 120 minor league baseball teams offered an invitation Wednesday. The invitation allows them to remain as an affiliated team with the Cleveland Indians.
Amherst County High School recently ended its Spirit Week by allowing selected students to pie an administrator or teacher in the face. The en…
Enrollment at Central Virginia Community College dropped 11% this year — but leaders, who anticipated a drop as large as 25%, are hopeful.
Maya Jama is taking acting classes to help further her acting career, following her role on Netflix’s ‘The Duchess’ .
Liberty University students will start the spring semester by quarantining in their dorm rooms and briefly taking classes online, and the school has eliminated the traditional weeklong spring break.
Even though distance learning largely takes place on a computer, it’s nice for kids to get some practice staying organized on paper. To keep track of homework assignments, due dates and even online classes, consider buying a small paper planner for your student. A pack of fine-tip colorful pens can also be a nice bonus.
If your child is easily distracted or working in a room with other people — including other children attending school on different computers — then surrounding their front and side views with a trifold poster board can help them stay focused on class. They can even decorate the poster board with photos and drawings.
Tyler, The Creator has revealed he's voting for the first time this year and has urged his loyal following to ensure they have their say on who will be the President of America.
There are zero active cases of COVID-19 among students at the University of Lynchburg and Sweet Briar College, the institutions announced Monday.
Yoga is best done in the presence of an instructor, said part-time Chicago yoga instructor Whitney Katz. But that’s not always possible, even in in-person classes, she said: “Not being watched properly by a teacher has hurt me more than it’s helped me.”
After reporting more than 500 active coronavirus cases less than a week after in-person classes started, James Madison University on Tuesday announced it would send students home and shift to primarily online courses starting Monday.
Central Virginia Community College announced Friday that two employees have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Lynchburg Police Department swore-in eleven new officers at the Miller Center on Thursday. The long-awaited ceremony marked the end of more than a half-year of rigorous instruction at the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, which was briefly forced to shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. Police officials hope the new officers will help ease the workload for a department short about 35 officers — or nearly a fifth of its ranks — when the group completes field training later this year.
Lynchburg-area college presidents outlined plans for fall instruction at a virtual Town and Gown meeting Tuesday with Lynchburg city leaders, …
Dave Grohl has come to the defence of teachers fighting to keep schools closed this autumn as the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives.
Bathroom assignments, masks and symptom monitoring join social distancing and online courses for next school year.
Bathroom assignments, masks and symptom monitoring join social distancing and online courses for next school year.
The University of Lynchburg announced plans Monday to reopen campus and return to in-person instruction Aug. 12.