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Education Briefs

DHS students receive honors These Durango High School Girls Cross Country, Student Council, Volleyball, Boys Soccer and Boys Cross Country teams and CHSAA activity groups were sub...

DATE: Dec 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Student exchange program seeks host families World Heritage Student Exchange Program, a public benefit organization, is seeking host families for high school students from more th...

DATE: Dec 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Our district needs a few good people

Last month, I reflected on the outstanding teaching staff members we are fortunate to have here in Durango. We’ve been fortunate to attract some of the best and brightest educato...

DATE: Dec 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Durango School News

Rote memorization stays with you for life

An erudite reader, former Foreign Service officer Jack Aubert of Falls Church, Virginia, objected to a prominent feature of modern education. “Rote memorization is very useful, a...

DATE: Dec 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Going to preschool all day pays

Study reveals many benefits for children

DATE: Dec 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Mindfulness at school

Students say it helps them cope with stress, anxiety

DATE: Dec 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

As schools pry, applicants clean up social media

Admissions officers at Morehouse College in Atlanta were shocked several years ago when a number of high school seniors submitted applications using email addresses containing provocative la...

DATE: Nov 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Durango Arts Center to host holiday camp Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will host the School’s Out Camp Art: Around the World from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 22, 23, 29 a...

DATE: Nov 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Students turn noses at healthy lunches

Meals brought from home contain more salt, sugar

DATE: Nov 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

St. Columba School recognizes students St. Columba School congratulates these November Super Star Students, who went above and beyond classroom expectations: Rocco Enea, Bradin Gu...

DATE: Nov 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Mountain Middle to host exhibition Todd Macon’s Mountain Middle School sixth-grade humanities students will host a book-release party and “Alice in Wonderland” exhibition from 6 t...

DATE: Nov 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Research at Utah school faked, university says

SALT LAKE CITY – An investigation has found faked research at a University of Utah chemical engineering lab. A graduate student doctored photos for a paper about microscopic struc...

DATE: Nov 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education