Nodaway Valley High School
Nodaway Valley High School is a rural public high school in Greenfield, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Nodaway Valley Community School District. It serves the towns of Greenfield, Bridgewater, and Fontanelle, and surrounding rural areas. The school was formed in 1993 from the merger of Bridgewater–Fontanelle High School and Greenfield High School. On July 1, 2000, the school's district, Greenfield Community School District, merged with Bridgewater–Fontanelle to form the Nodaway Valley district. In 2005, it had 295 students and 26 teachers. 13% were eligible for free lunch, less than the state average of 23%. Nodaway Valley's mascot of is the wolverine. School colors are silver, purple, and black. Athletics The Wolverines compete in the Pride of Iowa Conference in the following sports: * Football * Volleyball * Cross Country ** Boys' 2002 Class 1A State Champions ** Girls' 2009 Class 1A State Champions * Basketball ** Boys' 2006 Class 2A State Champions * Wre ...
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United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ...
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Creston News Advertiser
The ''Creston News Advertiser'' is a daily newspaper in Creston, Iowa, United States. It was started by Frank B. Thayer and Joel R. Hill, a Kansas City banker, in 1928 as a result of the merger of two newspapers, the ''Creston Evening News'' and the ''Creston Daily Advertiser''.''Inland printer, American lithographer'', Volume 85, Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co., 1930, p. 11/ref> ''Creston Evening News'' was founded as a weekly in 1879 and began daily circulation in 1881.CrestonNews.com
- Contact Us The paper remains a daily circulation, with carriers delivering papers in the afternoon. It also includes news formerly published by the ''

Public High Schools In Iowa
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word 'populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the p ...
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Education In Adair County, Iowa
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ...
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