KENNEBUNK – Eighth-grader Miranda Godek got placed in a design class in the wood shop at the Middle School of the Kennebunks back in September. She wasn’t sure how she was going to like it. “But I ...

A lesson for life that Bob Loyd and Jerry Schertzer taught us in wood-shop class: Everything goes back to its place (“I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered” by Mark Naida, op-ed, April 13). Members of our ...

Remember shop class? What happened to it? Learn how testing mandates and new career tracks turned saws and engines into computers and health labs.

It is 6:20 am. on a Monday. How many of you are looking forward to going to work? I am. I have the best job in the world. I am a school teacher. I teach wood shop at Santa Rosa High School. I get to ...

Like Mark Naida, I too found a rite of passage in wood-shop class (“I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered,” op-ed, April 13). I also went to school in rural Michigan, but as a girl I had to petition to get ...

Early Monday morning, Frank Ocean launched a surprise video on his website. Later in the morning, the stream evolved from a still image of a work desk to Ocean cutting up wood while a minimal ...

A class offered by Philadelphia's Police Athletic League is getting national attention. Officer Jessica Martinez recruited Suzanne Kahn to teach an all-girls woodshop. The class caught the attention ...

As community members came together Friday to honor, memorialize and mourn the death of Officer Daniel Ellis, a high school wood shop class worked diligently to do their part to make sure the fallen ...

Cruising along the Sakonnet River in his family's boat, Keegan Dutelle is proud when he passes a wooden boat that he and his classmates at Tiverton High School built. "It's cool being able to spot ...

The whirring and grinding of table saws and sanders, along with the scent of cut pine, greet anyone who stumbles into Pete Boyko’s wood shop class at Chaparral High School. Those sights and sounds are ...

KENNEBUNK – Eighth-grader Miranda Godek got placed in a design class in the wood shop at the Middle School of the Kennebunks back in September. She wasn’t sure how she was going to like it. “But I ...