Education - The Durango Herald

Open-source textbooks could be game changers College students may reduce costs considerably

STORRS, Conn. – The standard textbook for Fundamentals of General Chemistry I at the University of Connecticut has a list price of $303. For students who use the version professor Edward Net...

DATE: Feb 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Enrollment is open at Mountain Middle At Mountain Middle School, enrollment for next year’s sixth, seventh and eighth grades is open through Feb. 29. The lottery will...

DATE: Feb 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Schertz named to dean’s list in Golden Evan Schertz, 2015 Durango High School graduate, has been named to the dean’s list for his academic achievement at Colorado School of Mines ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

At Durango High School, budding business moguls off to state competition

DECA program develops leadership, analysis know-how in real-world setting

DATE: Feb 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Social media harms real talk about 9-R budget

When I grew up, there were no cellphones, no texting, no Internet, no blogs and no way to publicly respond to articles in the paper without writing a letter. People communicated ...

DATE: Feb 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Durango School News

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Two Fort Lewis College panels will meet Thursday The Business Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees for Fort Lewis College will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday followed by the Acade...

DATE: Feb 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Proposal to fund full-day kindergarten advances in state House Education Committee

Similar proposal dies in different Republican-led committee

DATE: Feb 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

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Fort Lewis College announces graduates In a ceremony on Dec, 19, 2015, more than 200 Fort Lewis College graduates and their families packed Whalen Gymnasium for Winter Commencemen...

DATE: Feb 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Animas High discusses inclusion in 9-R mill levy

‘People don’t believe we’re a public school, but we are’

DATE: Feb 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Administration gives states ways to cut student testing

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is offering states and local school districts a lesson plan of sorts to cut the amount of time that students spend on those fill-in-the-bubble and other...

DATE: Feb 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Meet new director at Southwest center The public is invited to meet Shelby Tisdale, the new director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. ...

DATE: Feb 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education