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 ...

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 ...

In America’s most surprising cutting-edge classes, students pursue hands-on work with wood, metals and machinery, getting a jump on lucrative old-school careers. School districts around the U.S. 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 ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- Tate McGovern has taken his wood shop class to the next level -- by preparing his car for a cross-country camping trip. The Independence High School senior is not just applying ...

Spend a few minutes in Gunnar Guttormsen Sr.'s wood shop classroom, and you can see how his middle schoolers' math skills are adding up. Seventh-grade kids study schematic diagrams they've drawn on ...

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 ...

For the cat or dog that's sitting in a shelter waiting to find their forever home, it can get lonely at times. That's why Albuquerque Animal Welfare is looking for more volunteers to provide a little ...