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Marshall, Waterloo baseball advance in state tournament
The 2024 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) baseball state tournament carries on for both Marshall and Waterloo. The No. 4 seed Pirates and No. 6 seed Cardinals handled business in their regional openers, both hosted at home on Thursday, May 23. Waterloo welcomed in No. 13 seed Necedah to Waterloo Fireman’s Park and romped to a 14-0 win in just five innings. Marshall got more than it bargained for in visiting No. 11 seed Parkview. The Vikings scored late but couldn’t fully erase the deficit...
“It’s never too late!” 92-year-old Mary Wells becomes oldest person ever to earn high school diploma from Madison College
Harry S. Truman was supposed to be the president when Sarah Wells graduated from high school in 1952 but some tough life circumstances at the time forced her to drop out of school. More than seven decades later, during the presidency of Joe Biden, Wells is now officially a graduate and making history.
Everlight Solar Hosts Inaugural Career Exploration Field Trip for Local Madison High School Seniors
MADISON, Wis., May 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Everlight Solar, Wisconsin's largest home solar company, proudly hosted its first Career Exploration field trip for local high school seniors. Students from three high schools in the Madison area visited Everlight Solar's headquarters to engage in a day of immersive, hands-on activities designed to introduce them to potential careers in the solar industry.
BEYOND LOCAL: How community colleges kept students engaged during and after the pandemic
The following article, written by Xueli Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison originally appeared on The Conversation and is published here with permission:. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it prompted enrollment drops at community and technical colleges. But it also spurred the schools to innovate in an effort to better serve students who might otherwise fall through the cracks. Xueli Wang, a professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, captures some of the steps that community colleges took in her newly released book, “Delivering Promise: Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical Colleges.” She expounds on a few examples in the below Q&A.
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