Archive By Section - Education
Tough new federal rules regulating for-profit colleges apply a double standard when they ignore community colleges, argues an administrator at a New York City-based career college.
November 18, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
School districts around the country are scrambling to find qualified special-education teachers to handle one of the most demanding teaching jobs, NPR reported, leaving many districts improvising with uncertified special-ed teachers.
November 17, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Comparing American students to high-flying students in South Korea or Finland is pointless, a new study by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute argues.
November 16, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
The Great Bend High School Panther Marching Band has had a successful fall season.
November 15, 2015
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Education
Central Plains Middle School recognizes Lexi Oeser and Jaydon Whiterock as the November Students of the Month.
November 13, 2015
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Education
The small Colorado town of Cañon City was rocked Friday with revelations that at least 100 kids had been trading naked pictures of themselves in a "sexting" ring that was said to even include some kids as young as 8th graders in the local middle school.
November 12, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
A growing body of literature is now addressing the collision of the digital age with the rapidly advancing sciences of parenting, brain development and reading acquisition.
November 11, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
A curriculum designed by the FBI to detect the early stages of violent religious extremism has drawn fire from Islamic organizations, who argue that the curriculum inappropriately targets Muslims.
November 10, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Chloe Girvan is not tech-savvy.
November 10, 2015
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Benjamin Bathke
Deseret News
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Education
A small survey of an impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood finds startling penetration by and reliance on tablets and smartphones for young children, with the vast majority of households having both tablets and smartphones in the home and most 4-year-olds owning their own mobile device by the age of 4.
November 08, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Great Bend Middle School announces the August through October Above and Beyond Winners. Each of these students was nominated by their teachers because they have gone above and beyond the call of duty in becoming a good citizen of GBMS. The students received a certificate and a pizza and pop luncheon with the school Administrators.
November 08, 2015
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Education
Principals Honor Roll
November 08, 2015
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Education
Barton Community College has been designated a 2016 military friendly school by Victory Media, a "veteran-owned small business that connects classrooms to careers for the nation's next generation of professionals," according to a news release from the organization.
November 06, 2015
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Education
The Ellinwood High School Vocal Music Department will present "The Wizard of Oz" for their annual fall musical. The production is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 13 and Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the EHS Auditorium.
November 06, 2015
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Special to the Tribune
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Education
Much-anticipated national test scores released last week seem to show a country stagnating across the board in reading and math, with scores of almost every demographic group and region slipping since 2013.
November 06, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
