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Rector High School
Rector High School is a public high school in Rector, Arkansas, United States. It is one of three public high schools located in Clay County and serves the communities of Rector, Piggott, Greenway, Lafe, and Corning. It is the sole high school of the Rector School District. Academics The school is accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) and has been accredited by AdvancED since 1958. The assumed course of study follows the Smart Core curriculum developed the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), which requires students to complete at least 24 credit units before graduation. Students engage in regular (core) and career focus courses and exams and may select Advanced Placement (AP) coursework and exams that may lead to college credit. Athletics The Rector High School mascot and athletic emblem is the ''Cougar'' with the school colors of blue and gray. The Rector Cougars participate in various interscholastic activities in the 2A Classification within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rector, Arkansas
Rector is a city in southeast Clay County, Arkansas, Clay County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,977 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Rector is named after Governor of Arkansas, Governor Henry Massey Rector (1816–1899).Tracy L. Johnson,Rector (Clay County)" ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture'', 2017. In 1881 the St. Louis Southwestern, Texas and St. Louis Railroad laid out the town of Rector about to the south of an existing settlement named Scatterville, Arkansas, Scatterville, and the population of Scatterville gradually migrated to the new town.Rachel Silva,Walks Through History: Rector CHD" Arkansas Historic Preservation Program website, 14 August 2010. Geography Rector is located in southern Clay County along the southeastern edge of Crowley's Ridge. U.S. Route 49 in Arkansas, U.S. Route 49 passes through the city, leading northeast to Piggott, Arkansas, Piggott and southwest to Marmaduke, Arkansas, Marmaduke. In the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggott, Arkansas
Piggott is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States. It is one of the two county seats of Clay County, along with Corning. It is the northern terminus of the Arkansas segment of the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, a National Scenic Byway. As of the 2010 census, Piggott's population was 3,849. The town was named after James A. Piggott, one of the early settlers and initiator of the local post office. Geography Piggott is located in eastern Clay County on the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge. U.S. Route 62 passes through the city, running west to Corning and northeast to Interstate 55 at New Madrid, Missouri. The northern terminus of U.S. Route 49 is in Piggott; the highway runs southwest to Paragould, and to Gulfport, Mississippi. According to the United States Census Bureau, Piggott has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.01%, is water. The topography of Piggott is mostly flat in the eastern half of the city with the more developed western half lying along Crowleyâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Alford
Thomas Dale Alford, Sr. (January 28, 1916 – January 25, 2000) was an American ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963. Early years and education Alford was born to Thomas H. Alford and the former Ida Womack in the small community of Newhope near Murfreesboro in Pike County in southwestern Arkansas. He attended public schools at Rector in Clay County in far northeastern Arkansas. He graduated from high school in 1932, a year ahead of schedule.Thomas Dale Alford, ''Who's Who in America, 1962-1963'', pp. 62-63 Alford first attended Arkansas State College in Jonesboro in eastern Arkansas, followed by the Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway, and received his medical degree in 1939 from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock. Military service and medical practice Alford served as a captain during World War II i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advanced Placement
Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board which offers college-level curricula and examinations to high school students. American colleges and universities may grant placement and course credit to students who obtain high scores on the examinations. The AP curriculum for each of the various subjects is created for the College Board by a panel of experts and college-level educators in that field of study. For a high school course to have the designation, the course must be audited by the College Board to ascertain that it satisfies the AP curriculum as specified in the Board's Course and Examination Description (CED). If the course is approved, the school may use the AP designation and the course will be publicly listed on the AP Course Ledger. History After the end of World War II, the Ford Foundation created a fund that supported committees studying education. The program, which was then referred to as the "Kenyon Plan", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
