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Our changes aim to benefit all students

In the past month, some misinformation has circulated about the district’s efforts to develop and implement a formative assessment system to measure student learning and target critical achi...

Tuition drives revenue at state colleges

Schools collect more from students than governments

Education Briefs

School district seeks calendar feedback Durango School District 9-R is seeking feedback about options for the 2015-16 academic calendar. While the district can’t accomm...

College entices with loan-payment deal

After graduation, students making less than $37,000 receive help

Education Briefs

Mountain Middle School to open enrollment Mountain Middle School announces enrollment registration for incoming sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders will be open from Jan. 5 to Feb...

Education Briefs

Columbine Christian recognizes students Columbine Christian School announces that these students exemplified responsibility in December: Cedar Turner, Hudson Gray, Sean Geraghty, ...

Immigrants learn English in tenement

Museum uses novel way to teach language

Education Briefs

Ellen Southworth studies abroad Bates student Ellen Southworth of Durango, spent the fall 2014 semester studying abroad in France at the Paris College of Art. Southwort...

The (video) game is on

Colleges embrace e-sports with teams, scholarships

Education Briefs

Title VII to host potluck feast Title VII Native American Education at Durango School District 9-R will host its Holiday Potluck Feast from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the La Pl...

Fewer choosing the humanities at FLC

Trend matches CU Boulder; sciences see spike in enrollment

6 years to college degree: Why so long?

WASHINGTON – College, as the saying goes, is supposed to be the best four years of your life. But there’s increasingly a new norm for students: spending six years getting a degree. ...