Education - The Durango Herald

Parents want more information on School District 9-R standards

Timing, math, languages questioned

DATE: May 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Segregation is getting worse in America’s public schools

WASHINGTON – Six decades after the Supreme Court outlawed separating students by race, stubborn disparities persist in how the country educates its poor and minority children. A r...

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

In class, laptops harm smartest students

Study shows their scores suffered most compared with those without computers

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

District 9-R to discuss graduation guidelines Durango School District 9-R will host a meeting about graduation guidelines at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Durango High School library. ...

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Animas High Escape Room creators learn there’s no escaping fire safety

Durango Fire requires changes to keep room safe

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Uranium-caused cancer inspires graduate of Fort Lewis College

Red Valley, Arizona, native headed to Johns Hopkins

DATE: May 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Graduation: What should Durango High students be able to do?

Draft standards to be presented to parents Wednesday

DATE: May 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

9-R educators honored for excellence

Community members and parents showed 9-R staff and teachers the love this year by submitting 400 nominations for 184 candidates in the Durango Education Foundation’s 2016 Educators of the Ye...

DATE: May 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango High School hires a new principal

Jonathan Hoerl is an assistant principal at Overland High in Denver

DATE: May 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango High School students shine at journalism conference

Eight leaders from the More than 4,000 students attended with their advisers, which gave students a chance to learn from their peers and professionals. The students, who attended with advi...

DATE: May 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Animas High School to feature student projects Thursday

Year-end exhibit will highlight student projects at all grade levels

DATE: May 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Durango School District to overhaul graduation requirements

This spring our Board of Education will adopt a new set of graduation guidelines that will greatly shift the process of earning a high school diploma. When most of us went to scho...

DATE: May 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Durango School News