Who better than someone who can rhapsodize about undies and nose-picking to get grade-schoolers interested in reading and writing poetry? Veteran kids’ author Kenn Nesbitt is making the rounds of DMPS schools this week doing just that like …

Willard Elementary School doesn’t dismiss by buzzer or bell. The schoolday’s not over ‘til Despina and her dimwitted brothers sing. That’s the drill on days when The Three Little Pigs are in the house, anyway. And Friday they …

Michael Duede, a sophomore in Kirk Embree’s aquarium science class at Central Campus, is hard at work on his 2nd year project: raising and studying a new octopus. The octopus, which is still quite young, arrived at Central …

Good luck to the student-athletes from Hoover, Lincoln and Roosevelt high schools who will be competing at the 2013 Boys’ State Swimming Meet on Saturday in Marshalltown. The Roosevelt Roughriders, who won the CIML Metro title in late …

Take some cardboard and duct tape and – voila – it’s the ingredients for both a lesson in science as well as a half-way decent sled. Cowles Montesorri teacher Heather Anderson, a finalist to be this year’s Iowa …