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Riverview students take second at international contest
Destination Imagination team earns second at global finals
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These Durango High School students received Team Academic Nominations for the Les Schwab Academic Team Championship Award for Spring 2014-2015: Girls soccer (3.78 GPA): Emma Aggeler, Lane Arnwine, Jenna Beckley,…
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Colorado, others shrink student testing
States move to reduce time spent on Common Core-based exams
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Student-testing bill gets guv’s signature
Hickenlooper signs measure reducing assessments
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Consumer agency opens inquiry on student loan services
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened a public inquiry Thursday into student loan servicing practices that it says can make paying back loans “stressful or harmful.” Private and federal student…
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ASSE International Student Exchange Programs is looking for local families to host boys and girls ages 15 to 18 from a variety of countries. The exchange students have money for…
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Students in the Ignacio High School Choices class presented their skills in dialectical behavior therapy at the class’s final equine therapy session and spring barbecue. Students brought family and friends…
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Common Core testing exposes tech divide
So when it came time to administer the new Common Core-aligned tests online, the district of 240 students in a valley of California oil fields and sugar beet farms faced…
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District to share challenges of school funding
Durango School District has faced years of cuts in staff and programs because of this funding crisis. Last year, we made a conscious effort to trim down to create a…
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Lewis Kyle Lewis, son of Darrell and Allyn (Surdey) Lewis, graduated from Fort Lewis College on May 2 with Summa Cum Laude honors and a Bachelor of Science degree in…
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Eighth-graders prepare for higher education
Furyu Nancy Schroeder, a Zen Buddhist priest from Green Gulch Farm Zen Center near Muir Beach, California, delivered the keynote address to eighth-grade girls Thursday at an orientation to prepare…
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Riverhouse Children’s Center will host the sixth annual Cheers for Children event to raise money for early childhood education from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Glacier Club. Proceeds…
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Most N.M. teachers effective, better
New Mexico Public Education Secretary Hanna Skandera says, “We are getting better and better about what’s happening in our schools.”Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press The agency said nearly 74 percent of…
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Most Colo. students being assessed
Some state lawmakers also took up the call, while parents who gathered at the state Legislature to urge lawmakers to scrap the new education standards tossed out opt-out rates as…
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Vaccination rules strengthened in Colorado
Parents asked to reaffirm opt-out decision regularly
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Durango High School graduation will be held at 6 p.m. May 29 at the Durango High School Stadium.Courtesy of Durango School District 9-R Animas High School will offer these programs:…
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Can public boarding schools solve educational ills?
The SEED Public Charter School of Washington, a public boarding school for poor and academically at-risk students is shown, puts round-the-clock attention on students away from such daunting problems as…
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Racism lingers among college millennials
Despite growing diversity, incidents persist nationwide
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Two student-testing reform measures advance
‘We are reducing testing,’ a Colo. lawmaker says
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Opt-out movement accelerates amid Common Core testing
Meredith Barber is with her daughter Gabrielle Schwager, 10, at their home in Penn Valley, Pa. Barber, a psychologist from the Philadelphia suburb of Penn Valley, has decided Gabrielle will…
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St. Columba School is accepting registration for kindergarten to eighth grade for the 2015-16 school year. For more information, call 247-5527. Liberty School invites you to science fair The Liberty…
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These local students have been recognized as First-Year Scholars for the fall 2014 semester at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley: Kevin Brinkley of Durango. Rydell Stottlemyer of Durango.…