Today's Local News

• Photo: Zayne Christensen, center, listens as classmate Breanna Mock answers a question while Micaela Hicks, left, and Max Kase, right, watch Wednesday morning during teacher Jill Brown's math class in the AMES academy of Beaufort Elementary. The students were each tasked with creating and presenting their own powerpoint presentation on intergals to a small group of their classmates.
  Sarah Welliver/The Beaufort Gazette

'Flipped' classroom has students doing homework in class and classwork at home

When students in one math class at Beaufort Elementary School sit down to their homework each night, they aren't cracking the textbooks and laboring over problem sets. (full story)

• Senior volunteers help peers files taxes at no charge
• South Carolina, North Carolina close to drawing new border
• Haley wants state parks to cover their own costs by 2013
• Carpet on beach paths is litter, town says; residents object
• Today's crime reports
• 80 tons of illegally dumped tires nearly cleaned up
• Casino complex proponents elaborate on jobs promise
• Local college students throw support behind casino proposal
• Judith Keyserling, marketing executive, sister of Beaufort mayor, dies
• Parris Island to honor female Marines
• Fire department takes care of 'family' in its legendary dog
• Sunday's crime reports
• Cover your plants, bring in the pets - it's going to get cold
• Speed-limit drop, lane shift coming to U.S. 278
• Bluffton native honored at Parris Island graduation
• Thieves strike 23 unlocked cars
• Friday's crime reports
• PHOTO: Retaining wall installed at old town Bluffton
• Riverview Charter could lease Shell Point Elementary

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