Steven Fisher, one of the McCombs Middle School Golden Eagles’ teacher sponsors, was awarded a $1,000 grant from Channel 5’s “One Classroom at a Time” during induction ceremonies for 163 student leaders at the school earlier today.  The …

American Promise is a timely documentary film about urban education that raises more questions than it answers. Two free screenings were shown yesterday at Fleur Cinema & Cafe and the intermission between them was highlighted by a panel …

Outside the temperatures were in the single digits and the ground covered with new-fallen snow, but inside the library at Greenwood Elementary School things were heating up, at least when it came to science, technology, engineering and mathematics …

Maybe U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) got more than he scheduled for when he visited Cowles Montessori Friday afternoon, maybe not. He was officially there to get an up close look at all the ways Cowles used the …

Amahl and the Night Visitors isn’t about the thundering herd loosed on Jordan Creek at the stroke of Black Friday. It’s the Des Moines Metro Opera’s production of a one-act opera about the very first Christmas Eve. Operatic …