Education

Florida Mesa Elementary Accountability committee to meet

Riverview parent, teacher group to meet

Child care will be provided. All Riverview parents and guardians are invited.

Durango School District’s Gifted and Talented program to meet

For more information, call or email Steff Snitselaar at 946-0190 or [email protected].

Durango student named to dean’s list

Students with a 3.25-3.79 GPA during a semester are named to the Chowan dean’s list. Cadderton’s major is psychology.

How to create resilient kids who can weather life’s challenges

Durango Herald file The life we have created for our family is neither luxury, nor torture. Mobility is simply a…

Efforts grow to help students evaluate what they see online

Lawmakers in several states have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to do more to teach media…

Most big public colleges don’t track suicides, AP finds

James Holleran, father of Madison Holleran, a University of Pennsylvania freshman who took her own life, talks about his daughter…

Principal’s door from Rockwell’s iconic ‘Shiner’ preserved

The plain door once served as a model for one of Norman Rockwell’s iconic paintings, “Girl With Black Eye,” also…

School virtual shooter training program aimed at survival

Police officers arrive with guns drawn, working their way through the school. Finally they confront the shooter and end the…

Universities face #MeToo movement over sexual harassment

When professor Celeste Kidd was a graduate student at the University of Rochester she says a professor supervising her made…

Colorado Jazz Band inducts two from Durango High School

They will perform in January at the Broadmoor Hotel International Center in Colorado Springs.

Western Slope Jazz Band inducts three from Durango High School

They will perform in January at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction.

Definition mission: A rhyming limerick for each English word

Chris Strolin poses for a photo in Belleville, Ill. Strolin created the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form, or…

Some states struggle to make preschool available to everyone

Advocates says it’s necessary, in part, to address child care costs

Cortez man completes high school education at 62

Lettman waited 44 years to revisit the classroom

Students defrauded by for-profits may not get full relief

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. The Education Department is abandoning the Obama administration’s…

Seed Studio opens enrollment for winter classes

Beginning drawing with instructor Andie Huml: Tuesdays, Jan. 9-Feb. 13; ages 8-12; $160 tuition.Lotus Girls with instructor Kathryn Samaltanos: Thursdays,…

Riverview Elementary School parents, teachers to meet

The meeting is open to parents and guardians of Riverview Elementary students. Child care will be provided.

High school seniors can apply for scholarships

The foundation awards scholarships, from $1,000 to $10,000, according to a range of criteria. The application deadline is Feb. 1.…

School ditches online learning program after parents revolt

The Summit Learning program, developed by a California charter school network, has signed up over 300 schools to use its…

11 misconceptions about paying for college

Associated Press file The FAFSA doesn’t award financial aid. Filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid determines whether…

Aspiring journalists at conservative Liberty University see themselves as the antidote to ‘fake news’

That’s the question professor Amy Bonebright needs to help her students answer. This is Liberty University, the world’s largest evangelical…

A low-stress, no-guilt guide to gifts for teachers

du1-i-syn However, from my perspective as a teacher, I have learned a few things that can take the stress or…

Durango student graduates from University of Central Oklahoma

For more information, visit www.uco.edu.