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Jennifer Coombes Band Director Aaron Carnahan leads students at Vikan Middle School in Brighton through a song. Carnahan was ...
Across the state, passionate teachers like Carnahan are keeping classes like dance, theater, and music strong. He said his ...
So in eighth grade, I self-taught myself bassoon for the last three months, just enough to play the one piece. I don’t remember anything from bassoon, but then in the summer between freshman and ...
Eighth-grader Brayden Williams joined the middle school band in sixth grade. Now, he's found a passion playing the alto saxophone and composing his own music. Research supports the idea that arts ...
Williams picked up the alto saxophone as a sixth grader in Carnahan’s class. Now, in eighth grade, he’s part of an after school ensemble and composes his own songs. He wrote one for his grandmother, ...
An Austin Independent School District student is dead following an eighth grade celebration that happened on Wednesday, Covington Middle School Principal Cedric Maddox said in a letter to the campu… ...
Inside the last day of eighth grade: tears, hugs and a new adventure. Mahider Matiwos, 14, and Zafira Rahman, 13, have been inseparable since they met on the playground in second grade.
Academics tend to agree that eighth grade is particularly formative. Students’ thoughts about themselves and their place in the world begin to weigh more heavily on the cusp of high school.
8th CPC Revised Pay Calculations: If you belong to Grade Pay 1,900, 4,800, or 6,700 pay scale, you form the majority of the central government employees' workforce. As the 8th Pay Commission ...
When I graduated from eighth grade at Finkl Academy on the Southwest Side in 2006, I was among the few students who spoke at the ceremony. It was the first time I spoke in public.