Each year the Iowa Department of Education names finalists for the state’s Teacher of the Year award. This year two of the six hail from Des Moines Public Schools, and between them they vividly demonstrate the exceptionally wide …
The next time you’ve got more tomatoes than you can foist upon friends and family at the end of the growing season, just think of the Tomato King and how he must have felt dumping 30,000 gallons of …
It’s that time of year when apples fall on the noggins of great thinkers like Isaac Newton, and change agents from Nobel laureates on down are being recognized. And again this year Des Moines Public Schools can claim …
Set the alarms and hands off the snooze button! Blow reveille! The phone’s ringing – it’s better grades and brighter futures and they’re waiting to speak to YOU! Today East High School officially launches its bid for a …
Students at Scavo Alternative High School absorbed a powerful one-two punch of storytelling Tuesday that maybe was a tad more attention-getting than the counsel of their teachers can be by itself. In the morning Iowa State Men’s Basketball …
