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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...