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Amherst Regional High School

ARHS principal Gene Jones to resign for North Carolina job

Posted on Thursday, July 9th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Scott Merzbach, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 7/9/2020
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST — An appointment to a principal position at a North Carolina high school is prompting Amherst Regional High School Principal Gene Jones to resign after one year in the district. In a letter to families in the district sent Wednesday evening, Jones wrote that he would be resigning effective July 24, following his appointment as principal of the… [Read More]

Unusual Amherst Regional graduation ceremony ‘meant something to us’

Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 5/27/2020
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST — As music played and spectators clapped and used various noisemakers, including their car horns, more than 200 Amherst Regional High School seniors made their way across a makeshift stage set up in front of the school Wednesday. Staying at least six feet apart to maintain proper social distancing during the daylong graduation procession, some… [Read More]

AMHERST REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Grads urged to ‘change the world’

Posted on Monday, June 10th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Crhistensen, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 6/8/2019

AMHERST — Bob Keiter vividly remembers taking his granddaughter, Malina Kern, to Rhode Island’s Block Island when she was little. He said that he used to take Malina out into the water and the two would watch as the waves came crashing in — some big and some small. “I’d say, ‘Over or under, and she’d… [Read More]

Jackson steps down as Amherst Regional High School principal

Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Gazette Staff, The Gazette
Date: 10/18/2018
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST — After 15 years working in the district, Mark Jackson announced Thursday that he would retire as principal of Amherst Regional High School on Nov. 1. Because he will be using accrued vacation time, Thursday was his last day, according to an email announcement from Superintendent Michael Morris. “Although the timing may seem less… [Read More]

Need for news literacy presses on educators in social-media age

Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, The Gazette
Date: 9/10/2017
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST — The pope endorsed Donald Trump, who himself is facing sealed indictments and possibly the death penalty for espionage. Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and some members of his Democratic Party are engaged in a human trafficking ring run out of the basement of a Washington D.C., pizza parlor. So-called “fake… [Read More]

Two students honored for social justice work

Posted on Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Sarah Crosby, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 5/26/2016
Link: Complete Article

FLORENCE, MA — Two Valley high school students will receive scholarships for their work in social justice Sunday at the Sojourner Truth statue. Olivia Kan-Sperling, from Northampton High School, and Lanre Thomas, from Amherst Regional High School, the scholarship recipients, have both tackled issues of inequality and injustice in their communities through innovative projects and… [Read More]

Amherst Regional High School prepares to expand interactive math curriculum that encourages flexibility, multiple solutions

Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: David Eisenstadter, Amherst Bulletin
Date: 3/18/15
Link: Complete Article

AMHERST, MA — A businesswoman offers two items in her air delivery service: calculators and chicken feed. The two products come in containers of different weight and size, with different costs and sale prices. Accounting for the limited capacity of her plane, how much of each is feasible to carry? Such was the problem facing… [Read More]