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An Emporia High School senior recently claimed first place in a national financial literacy competition sponsored by Jobs for America's Graduates.  Erica Zhou Wang, who has participated in the JAG-Kansas program throughout her entire high school career, was announced the winner of the contest last week. JAG-K is a multi-year, in-school program for students in grades 7 - 12 designed to help successfully transition students into post-secondary school, the military, or directly into the workforce with marketable skills.  Wang qualified for the national competition after competing at both t...

Forklifts, tractors, that's why we need partnerships with the community in order to help us understand what all the possibilities are. >> that's at 100. >> i know what it looks like. >> 100x. >> it's like home. we're more comfortable around each other. we don't have to dress good and look good for what people think of us. we just be ourselves when we come here. >> all the teachers here know what they are teaching. the way they teach it is like they use a project-based learning. >> microscopes have actually said up the slides to the highest matt nisks. >> it makes us work together and collabora...

>> parents in our district. >> and students can get on it. it is called i student. >> nothing is ever going to beat a teacher in a classroom with the student sitting at the desk, the traditional learning environment. >> if the person behind the desk is a motivating and fair and scare, kids are going to learn. >> 1900 miles south of wasilla, alaska, is napa new technology high school. the flagship for the new technology network. 40 schools in nine states, a group that is changing the way a classroom works. >> you are not seeing rows and rows of desks and the teacher isn't the performer in the f...

>> and students can get on it. it is called i student. >> nothing is ever going to beat a teacher in a classroom with the student sitting at the desk, the traditional learning environment. >> if the person behind the desk is a motivating and fair and scare, kids are going to learn. >> 1900 miles south of wasilla, alaska, is napa new technology high school. the flagship for the new technology network. 40 schools in nine states, a group that is changing the way a classroom works. >> you are not seeing rows and rows of desks and the teacher isn't the performer in the front. what show are really s...

>> and students can get on it. it is called i student. >> nothing is ever going to beat a teacher in a classroom with the student sitting at the desk, the traditional learning environment. >> if the person behind the desk is a motivating and fair and scare, kids are going to learn. >> 1900 miles south of wasilla, alaska, is napa new technology high school. the flagship for the new technology network. 40 schools in nine states, a group that is changing the way a classroom works. >> you are not seeing rows and rows of desks and the teacher isn't the performer in the front. what show are really s...