Undroppable filmmaer Jason Pollock was back at East High School on Friday afternoon. This time, instead of collecting one-on-one videos with students who face daunting obstacles to stay in school and graduate, he produced a quasi-flash mob of …
Wednesday was a blast from the past and Thursday was a tour of the future at the newly renovated and now rededicated McCombs Middle School. The theme this week has been Re-Newell, as in Newell McCombs, the school’s …
The Stars and Stripes were clanking on the pole outside Phillips Elementary School today. Stirred by a November breeze, they were calling all voters to the mock presidential election taking place inside. The art room served as the polling …
The seventh graders picked up pushpins and started digging into their wet and saturated corn kernels. It was a lesson in basic seed biology. The task of the day was to find, identify and separate the four basic …
While most larger, more urban school districts across the nation are seeing a decline in student enrollment, Des Moines Public Schools is going against that trend with a second straight year of an enrollment increase of more than 500 …
