Education

Virginia Tech researcher Sujith Vijayan believes brain rhythms can be manipulated with auditory stimulation during sleep to restore the healing quality of sleep for PTSD patients. He’s also probing the connection between sleep and learning.

Only 18 school divisions in Virginia maintained or increased their pass rate for at least one of the five subject areas tested, compared to before the pandemic.

Students in the new Rapid Maroons program who complete at least 21 credit hours with a grade-point average of at least 2.0 at VWCC will be able to transfer to Roanoke College without reapplying. 

The board discussed going back to the consulting firm that had proposed several school-closing scenarios and asking it to find more cost savings.

Two unions representing faculty, staff and graduate student workers at the state university launched Tuesday after three years of quietly building their membership bases.

Two unions to represent graduate assistants, faculty and staff are going public Tuesday after three years of underground organizing around issues like wages and job security.

A study published last year found that a majority of the city’s schools need complete renovations to function as productive learning sites. A recommendation to close two elementary schools will go before the Lynchburg School Board as early as next week.

The Youth Registered Apprenticeship Program, which is offered at more than 30 school divisions across the state, offers students training in fields ranging from machining and construction to dental assisting and culinary arts. 

School systems are now allowed to send meals home with kids during the summer instead of requiring students to come to school to eat. This past June, Henry County served a little over 58,000 meals. In June of last year, prior to the rule change, the team served 22,107.

A weeklong program hosted at Virginia Western Community College’s culinary arts facility is a community collaboration with plans to expand.