ssistant director Molly Rideout talks wtih artists as Assets for Artists holds a workshop in the Prow of Mass MoCA. Press photo by Sofia Taylor, courtesy of Assets 4 Artists

Learning

Here are the Hill Country Observer’s articles about learning, listed from newest to oldest. Knowledge matters at the Hill Country Observer — Public education, freedom to think and read, revel in ideas and share them — and life in our schools, from elementary to colleges.

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    Changing a college’s energy equation

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    At Green Mountain, students pursue goal of ‘net-zero’ campus By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer POULTNEY, Vt.   Steven Letendre, a professor of business, economics and environmental studies at Green Mountain College, has been working with students on a project aimed at getting the campus to “net-zero” energy status, meaning its annual power production and consumption would read more

    Changing a college’s energy equation
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    Shining light on a ‘forgotten holocaust’

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    Artist’s exhibit tells story of Stalin’s mass deportation of Poles By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer HUDSON, N.Y.   Maria Kolodziej-Zincio has created a set of 20 encaustic paintings that tell the story of her mother’s family’s deportation to Siberia. Denise Chandler photo While the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany is a well-known and well-documented chapter read more

    Shining light on a ‘forgotten holocaust’
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    From ancient Egypt to Vermont

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    New Manchester library points a way forward for rural communities By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt.   More than two millennia have passed since the first of several destructions of the Great Library of Alexandria. With each catastrophe, the educated world mourned the loss of centuries of knowledge, and the citizens of that ancient Egyptian read more

    From ancient Egypt to Vermont
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    Region’s colleges turn more to part-time teachers

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    A second tier of instructors is growing in New York By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer QUEENSBURY, N.Y. Neal Herr and Rebecca Cash are among nearly 200 adjunct faculty members at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, N.Y. The college has increased its roster of part-time instructors from 154 to 196 in the past 10 years. Rebecca Cash read more

    Region’s colleges turn more to part-time teachers
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    New hope for bats

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    Researchers find improved survival among one species, after long decline By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer DORSET, Vt. Biologists have documented the first hopeful sign that the region’s bat populations may eventually recover from the devastation of white nose syndrome. The numbers of one species of bat affected by the deadly disease appear to be stabilizing, with read more

    New hope for bats
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    A schoolhouse for the creative

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    Plans advance for a visual arts school in Columbia County By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer   HARLEMVILLE, N.Y. A historic former schoolhouse in the rural hamlet of Harlemville may soon return to its roots by serving as the home of a proposed Art School of Columbia County. Planning for the new art school has been read more

    A schoolhouse for the creative
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    Art school extends its reach

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    IS183 goes off campus to public schools, downtown Pittsfield By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.Over the past two decades, IS183 Art School of the Berkshires has become well known for the classes and workshops it offers at the historic Citizens Hall building in the village of Interlaken. But the nonprofit art school also has read more

    Art school extends its reach
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    Vermont moves to limit vaccine exemptions

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    Vermont moves to limit vaccine exemptions, prompting backlash By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer   BENNINGTON, Vt. Asked about the subject of childhood vaccines, Lauryn Starkie Kreuder became guarded. Starkie Kreuder and her husband have chosen not to vaccinate their two children. Citing philosophical objections, they obtained a waiver from the state’s vaccine requirements. The waiver read more

    Vermont moves to limit vaccine exemptions
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    Generation Organic — Young people in a high-tech age rediscover farming

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer   SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.On a cold winter night, the gathering of 20- and 30-somethings animated a large hall at the Saratoga Springs Hilton with warmth and laughter. A quick scan of the scene left no doubt that the occasion couldn’t possibly be a singles event or a high-powered business affair. read more

    Generation Organic — Young people in a high-tech age rediscover farming
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    College plans Vermont’s first polling center

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    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer CASTLETON, Vt.When news organizations have tried to assess the public support for various state and federal candidates in Vermont, they’ve always had to rely on the work of out-of-state polling firms. But that could soon change, as officials at Castleton State College are in the process of setting up the read more

    College plans Vermont’s first polling center