Raising The Dropout Age Shows Varied Results
In North Carolina, you can legally drop out of high school at the age of 16 – except in two school districts in Catawba County – Newton-Conover City Schools and Hickory Public Schools. Both were […]
Education
Prepare for Successful Summer College Tours
Campus visits are a critical part of choosing the right college. Nothing else cuts through the clutter of data better than getting a firsthand look at the school you are considering attending for several years of […]
CVCC Team Wins NC Space Grant Team Work Award In High Altitude Balloon Payload Competition
Catawba Valley Community College students recently competed in the NASA/NC Space Grant Community College High Altitude Ballooning Team Challenge and Competition and won the Team Work Award. Six community college teams competed by constructing and […]
Discovery High student’s senior project illustrates anxiety attack
Since he was in third grade, Discovery High senior Zach Perry has suffered from anxiety attacks. He is one of 6.8 million people or 3.1 percent of the U.S. population who lives with this problem […]
Catawba Valley Community College students experience civil rights advocates’ ‘Bloody Sunday’ march in Selma
There were no billy clubs or tear gas, but students from Catawba Valley Community College had the opportunity to walk the same steps supporters of the civil rights movement took during the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” […]
CVCC Professor Shares Life Experience With Students
This is Jennifer Cobb’s third year as a faculty member for Catawba Valley Community College’s Advertising and Graphic Design program, but the institution has been a part of her life much longer. She’s gone on […]
High School Shark Tank Holds Water for Future Entrepreneurs
Sometimes as a high school principal, it is easy to stand at the back of a classroom and feel like a character in a Walter Mitty skit. Rather than be something you are not, the […]
Northview Middle School students add their voices to improvement plan
This is the year of the student at Northview Middle School. A new initiative, called WIN (What I Need), has put the focus on giving students more of a voice in their own education and […]
Column: K-64 – Transforming local education through shared success
As the Catawba County Board of Commissioners continues to move our strategic planning process forward, we’ve already taken definitive action in a critical area for community growth: education. Along with our local education systems, we […]
Home schools continue to grow in numbers in Catawba County
Flexibility and freedom are just some of the reasons thousands of families have turned to home schools for their children’s educational needs. Thirty years ago there were 381 home schools in North Carolina, serving 809 […]