The Providence boy is an early participant in a city project that aims to boost the language skills of low-income children by using recorders to count the words they’re exposed…
AHS students spend week learning how to manage, protect their money
Young adults with special needs learn life skills through DHS program
A student writes notes in the Advanced Placement physics class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington. The number of students taking Advanced Placement classes has doubled during the last…
Changes attempt to limit influence of ideology on education
Online curriculum offers variety of subjects to wide range of students
Durango High School’s Peer Influence Club will host its second annual Valentine’s Dance for students with special needs from noon to 3 p.m. Friday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.…
University of Arkansas Honors College students Adel Vaughn and Mary Nell Patterson have won the Student Award in the Envision Little Rock 2013 Ideas Competition, which challenged Arkansas designers to…
Endowments at U.S. colleges and universities showed strong growth in 2013, according to a report released Tuesday.Associated Press file More than 80 institutions reported endowments from the 2013 budget year…
State turns focus to vocational training; critics fear dumbing-down
A new Harris Poll finds that fewer adults believe teachers respect parents or students – and that fewer believe parents and students respect teachers. In other words, just about every…
The Institute for College Access and Success, a research group, reported not only enormous variation in student debt from school to school – from less than $5,000 per borrower at…
Durango Education Center, FLC offer mind-expanding opportunities
As a public school district, it is our job to serve the citizenry of Durango in ensuring that students are prepared to be contributing members of our community upon completion…
The Primary Project, which screens 3,000 kindergarteners and first-graders in Palm Beach County, Fla., has helped Matthew Palma build his confidence. Stephanie Dana-Schmidt works with Palma during a play therapy…
While the performance of American students who took the exams in 2012 differed little from the performance of those tested in 2009, the last time the exams were administered, several…
Cursive is fading, but advocates say it conveys intelligence, engages creativity
The dire numbers underscore the challenges that colleges confront as they look to bring in more students and send them out into the world as graduates. The numbers also could…
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is offering a workshop called “Mesa Verde National Park: Convergences and Crossroads in the American Southwest” for kindergarten to 12th-grade educators. This National Endowment for the…
While the projects had wildly different end products, they both had a similar starting point: focusing on how to ease people’s lives. And that is a central lesson at the…
Program improves test scores, attendance, parental involvement
Students, families say they can budget wisely, borrow less
The Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will hold its Winter Arts Camp for Kids from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 1-3. The camp will be for children…
DHS class to prepare students for the working world
When exam pressure is extreme, there is money to be made
