Education - The Durango Herald

Enrollment increases, so do some class sizes

Enrollment in “A couple of class sizes are troubling,” said Dan Snowberger, 9-R superintendent, to the board Wednesday night. “Fort Lewis Mesa and Riverview both have a fourth-grade class ...

DATE: Aug 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango preschool grows the youngest gardeners

Riverhouse adds hands-on lessons about nutrition, growing process

DATE: Aug 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

9-R announces changes for three open houses Durango School District 9-R has announced the time changes for three open houses. Riverview Elementary School, 5 to 6 p.m. Sept. 15....

DATE: Aug 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Fort Lewis College admits historic high-achieving Class of 2020

Fall semester began Monday

DATE: Aug 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

In some U.S. schools, resistance to ending corporal punishment

Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher of Dexter, Georgia, paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work. ...

DATE: Aug 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Love of science takes Olathe senior to California

‘We sliced and dissected the brains’

DATE: Aug 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More New Mexico public schools earn ‘A’ or ‘B’ grades

ALBUQUERQUE – More New Mexico public schools earned “A” or “B” grades last school year, but over a third still received “D” or “F” grades, according to results released this week by the stat...

DATE: Aug 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

College students more likely to be heavy drinkers than young adults not enrolled

The United States’ full-time college students are more likely to be heavy drinkers than young adults who aren’t enrolled in college, according to a new federal report. But they’re no more li...

DATE: Aug 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Low-income kindergartners closing the achievement gap, reversing decades-old trend

Low-income kindergartners are entering school with stronger math and reading skills, narrowing the academic gap with their affluent peers and reversing a decades-old trend, according to rece...

DATE: Aug 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Durango School District 9-R ramps up school security

‘The conversation should start at home’

DATE: Aug 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nation’s teacher force lacks diversity

Persistent achievement gaps among black and Hispanic students have confounded education experts for years. One strategy researchers have found to be successful at narrowing the gaps is a sim...

DATE: Aug 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education