Education
Summer: Time for innovation, not rest
Students keep learning, teachers try out new programs
Education
Education
New tests tough for New York students
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and others did their best to calm edgy New York parents and tell others to brace for more drops as 46 states adjust to…
Education
Massive online classes: What it’s like to enroll
Free courses offer opportunity, if you can finish
Durango School News
A busy election season awaits for public education
In the last four years, public school funding has dropped by more than a billion dollars because of the lagging economy across our country. During that time, Colorado has passed…
Education
College students end up with more bills than just tuition
The price of housing and food trumps tuition costs for students who attend two- and four-year public universities in their home states, according to a College Board survey. Even with…
Education
School can’t ban ‘boobies’ bracelets
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also concluded that school officials didn’t prove the bracelets were disruptive. “Because the bracelets here are not plainly lewd and because they comment…
Education
6 apps to help students manage life at college
Here are just some of the apps you may find yourself using in your four years at school. The best part? They’re all free. Evernote. iPhone: Yes. Android: Yes. Useful…
Education
High achievers choose colleges farther from home
The higher students score on a standardized college entrance exam, the more distance they may put between home and their college choice, a new study shows. A similar link exists…
Education
Schools lose taste for candy fundraisers
Trash bags, artwork, events now used to raise money
Education
Colleges lure students back to finish degrees
Helping those who have done the work get their diplomas
Education
Health-care plan unites conservative students
Opposition to federal law is growing at graduate schools
Education
Even for students who dropout, college pays
Small increments of additional education help raise earnings
Education
U.S. education spending tops global list, study reveals
Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – which groups the world’s most developed countries – writes in…
Education
Judge allows yoga in public schools
California parents said classes were promoting religion
Education
Post-recession, higher ed paths diverge
Specialization becomes focus in U.S.; liberal arts rise elsewhere
Education
Class, not race, may be colleges’ new test
Supreme Court ruling against racial preferences could shift focus
Education
Old Detroit schools reborn
As schools close, cities find new purposes for vacant buildings
Education
Service allows students to report bullying by text
A leading education technology company last week announced it would give schools a free and confidential way for students to tell school officials by text that they are being bullied…
Local News
Teachers frustrated as lawsuit defeated
Cortez district on record: Budget allocations unfair
Education
Good idea? Schools ask students to bring their own technology
Officials at the schools say the students’ own devices are the simplest way to access a new generation of learning apps that can, for example, teach them math, test them…
Education
Our classmate, the robot
N.Y. student with life-threatening allergies attends school remotely
Durango School News
Assessments aim to improve student success
My first year in Durango has been a rewarding experience. This year has been marked with a lot of changes – some required by law and others required following an…
Education
College enrollment falls as more return to work
The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll students in vocation-oriented classes tied to the local job market.…
Policy and Politics
School flap a learning opportunity
But like most things, it’s all in the spin, and while eighth-graders might never admit they appreciate an afternoon spent among Van Gogh’s paintings, the experience stays with them far…
Education
India’s poor attend school under bridge
Under railway, students study everything from writing to geometry
Education
ACT exams to burst bubble and go digital; results will be instant
The results now typically take two weeks, and sometimes as much as four to six weeks. Nearly 1.7 million students took the ACT last year. It was one of two…