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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...