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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GYPSUM – Remember walking into your high school wood shop class and finishing up that vase you worked on all semester? Well, wood shop has an entire new look for students graduating in this century.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...