Education

Skyler Hornback, a LaRue County Middle School eighth-grade student, won a scholarship while placing in the top-10 in three competitions during the past week.

On March 22, he took 10th among middle school students throughout Kentucky competing in MathCounts at the Holiday Inn Hurstbourne in Louisville.  

His placement earned him a $1500 four-year tuition scholarship to add to the three other scholarships he has won through MathCounts, according to his academic team coach Doris Jean Holleran.

 Not only do educators want students to be career or college ready when they graduate from high school, they also desire young children to be prepared to enter kindergarten.

To provide community leaders, community early childhood councils, and school districts with data to assist in developing local strategies for helping these children arrive at kindergarten ready to do kindergarten work, the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood released last week early childhood data for each county in Kentucky.

 Leslie Pike of Hodgenville has been selected to attend the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky on the campus of Western Kentucky University.

Pike, who is homeschooled, will complete her junior and senior years of high school living on campus and taking courses at WKU. At the end of the two years, she will graduate from high school and have earned at least 60 college credit hours.

She is the daughter of Les and Angela Pike.

  Tara Wooden said she was very content to be a LaRue County High School high school math teacher, but chose national board certification to help her grow professionally to become a stronger instructor.

“Before I went through this process, I never pre-planned the questions I was going to ask in class,” she said. “I knew what I was going to be teaching, and had a plan for instruction; however, never specific questions.”