KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — High staff turnover at day care centers hurts a child’s social and educational development, a University of Tennessee professor of child and family studies said Thursday. Dr. Jan Allen said the low pay of day care jobs causes many workers to leave their jobs. With high turnover rates, children are less likely
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Spring semester top graduates at the University of Tennessee include eight Knox County students. They are Karen Denise Denton, Karen M. Dorn, Kristen Nicole Franks, Matthew Benjamin Matteson, Timothy Robert Reuscher, Scott Nixon and Keith Townsend, all of Knoxville; and Carolyn Gardner Buttram of Heiskell. Top graduates have the highest grade-point averages
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Sales of new homes reveal much about the health of the construction and materials industries, but a University of Tennessee economist says existing-home sales provide far more important information. Sales of previously-owned homes jumped 6.9 percent in March to the highest level in more than two years, the National Association of Realtors
TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — Two University of Tennessee Space Institute degree candidates have been named to NASA’s astronaut class of 1996, NASA announced Wednesday. They are Marine Corps Capt. Charles O. Hobaugh and Navy Lt. Scott J. Kelly, both currently assigned to the Naval Air Station test pilot school at Patuxent River, Md. Both will be