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Animas High to hold parent orientation Wednesday

Animas High School will host a parent orientation for all new and returning families from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Enrollment for ninth through 11th grade is open through Sept. 30. ...

1.3 million students in U.S. are homeless

New law to expand services for kids without homes

State tests: Math results alarming, 9-R superintendent says

Exams only one indicator of students’ learning

ACT scores show many graduates not ready for college-level work

Many graduates are unprepared for college-level work

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 ...

Durango preschool grows the youngest gardeners

Riverhouse adds hands-on lessons about nutrition, growing process

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....

Fort Lewis College admits historic high-achieving Class of 2020

Fall semester began Monday

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. ...

Love of science takes Olathe senior to California

‘We sliced and dissected the brains’

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...

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...