Cailon Garland, a senior at Robbinsville High School, has been nominated by her peers to be one of the Senior Class representatives for the 2013 RHS Homecoming Court.  An EBCI tribal member, she is the daughter of Zena Rattler and Charlie Garland and the granddaughter...

Now that students are settling into their classes for the new school year, many middle and high schools are beginning to pull their student government associations together. In most cases, each grade might have officers that make up a student body assembly, and this...

Western North Carolina’s educational institutions must re-emphasize the importance of mathematical skills at all levels – from basic addition and subtraction to advanced statistics, analysis and predictive modeling – if mountain students are to succeed in the modern workforce.

Last week, Cherokee High School invited the community to walk the Sacred Path. Exercising generosity, students responded to Frances Hess’ call to participate in the annual American Red Cross Blood Drive.

Although most of my columns have been focused on seniors, your ninth grade year might in fact, be your most critically important year of high school. This is the year that you can create a road map to high school success, and on point college preparation. With a...

Hartwell Francis, director of Western Carolina University’s Cherokee language program, won a fellowship to study 19th- and 20th-century Cherokee language texts archived at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.