November 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — The operating room isn’t real. The patient and the surgeon aren’t either. Nor are the intricate and varied medical devices. But the results of this video- game-style simulator could be very real for the surgical technicians...
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November 5, 2009
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Norfolk State University President Carolyn Meyers is in line for a new job.The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported today that Meyers has been named one of three finalists for the top job at Morgan State University in Baltim...
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HIGH POINT — It’s hard to be a technology academy when nearly half your students don’t have computers. That’s why more than 160 students at Welborn Academy of Science and Technology received a free computer Wednesday. “I thin...
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November 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — The county will lose $10,000 if the school district does not exercise an option to buy a particular site for the future Southeast area elementary school. Guilford County Schools has until Nov. 30 to buy the 55 acres about two miles nort...
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WINSTON-SALEM -- We live in a test-it-to-death culture when it comes to education. Sit down with any public school teacher, and they’ll rattle off the ordeal of teaching to the end-of-grade tests mandated by the state. Their students, they say, turn...
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October 31, 2009
GREENSBORO — Property the school board is considering buying for a new southeast area elementary school could cost $2 million more than originally believed. County Commissioner Billy Yow confirmed the school board learned Oct. 22 that the property o...
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October 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — A line of people formed outside Elliott University Center at UNCG on Thursday morning, waiting for H1N1 flu vaccinations. By 3 p.m. , the line had gone down to about a dozen people waiting at a time. By then, the shots were gone, and...
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October 29, 2009
Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.A record high of about 11.5 million Americans age 18 to 24, or nearly...
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A retroactive change in state law allows thousands of students who came close to getting a high school diploma to finally collect it.The Winston-Salem Journal reported today the change affects students who finished all requireme...
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October 28, 2009
DURHAM — The Duke University Police Department has suspended, with pay, an officer charged in a "bondage rape" in Alabama where he allegedly gagged and handcuffed a woman in his car before violating her.The sheriff in Dothan, Ala., where W...
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GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T may have pulled out of its annual concert at the Greensboro Coliseum , but homecoming will be alive and well on campus this weekend. The school is banking on guests like poet Maya Angelou and R&B group The Temptations...
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October 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — Oak Ridge Military Academy announced its new president on Tuesday , and the name is a familiar one in local academic circles.Cuyler McKnight will leave his post as executive vice president at GTCC to lead the 157-year-old military...
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October 26, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — A report of someone seen armed with a rifle running behind a female at Wiley Middle School this morning, which prompted a lockdown, turned out to be a false alarm.About 10:34 a.m., Winston-Salem police officers responded to a report...
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October 24, 2009
Parents in Oak Ridge feel they can finally see an end to the ongoing troubles with their elementary school. Guilford County Schools learned this week that a final report by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will not include any add...
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October 23, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Even if a drama teacher at Mineral Springs Middle School who is charged with sexual misconduct is cleared of the charges, he could still lose his job, school officials said Thursday.The teacher, Ralph David Surridge, 57, was ch...
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HIGH POINT — When High Point University’s new $70 million student center opens today , it will be a perfect marker on the school’s road from small private school to fast-growing blue-chip university. The High Point University Center will...
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GREENSBORO — School officials say they no longer need to wait on a final environmental health report they’ve sought for months to help them decide when to reopen Oak Ridge Elementary. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health n...
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HIGH POINT — The City Council gave High Point University permission Thursday to build a parking lot off West College Drive. The two lots — 906 E. Farris Ave. and 1011 Fifth Court — will be added to an area approved in April for parking a...
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October 22, 2009
OAK RIDGE -- School officials now say they won’t use a final health report they’ve been waiting months for to decide when to reopen Oak Ridge Elementary. The decision was announced to parents Tuesday via email. It comes after the National Inst...
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GREENSBORO — A fight at Northeast High on Oct. 7 was not as big as investigators thought but did involve gangs. That’s according to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office, which said it plans to charge four students for taking part in the...
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October 21, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools will conduct criminal background checks on a randomly selected group of employees after discovering that, during the hiring process, the school system missed a prior conviction of a mid...
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GREENSBORO — For college students, coffee is more than a buzz. It's sustenance for the weary, light at the end of the tunnel, the catalyst for late-night conversations. It is, in short, a way of life.But Greensboro College has never had a coffee sho...
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October 20, 2009
MAYODAN — A Rockingham County deputy used a Taser to subdue a McMichael High School student who became disruptive during football practice Monday.The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said a 17-year-old student started cursing and making loud comme...
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — The drama teacher at Mineral Springs Middle School who was arrested this weekend on charges of sexual misconduct with a student may have lied on his employment application, Superintendent Don Martin said Monday.Ralph David Surr...
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WENTWORTH — A flagging campaign to raise money for the McMichael Civic Center has Rockingham Community College leaders seeking alternative methods to fund the project, including a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. College officials raise...
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