Summer is no time to relax for students faced with adapting to new surroundings in a new culture besides trying to catch up and keep up in school. That’s why Des Moines Public Schools offers the Summer Enrichment …
Students from Central Campus are helping researchers at Des Moines University study the brain. The Spring 2015 issue of DMU Magazine features a story about how DMPS high schoolers are working with professor Muhammad Spocter in his graduate-level neuroanatomy class …
Cowles Montessori’s Mary McFetridge, 11, will board a plane to Washington, D.C. in early July to dine with First Lady Michelle Obama and tour the White House kitchen garden. She is one of 55 students nationwide who won the …
College professors have long labored with the mantra “publish or perish” dangling over their heads like the Sword of Damocles. Maybe they teach a few sections in their discipline but otherwise they’re expected to do research, make breakthroughs, …
On Monday morning – the second official day of summer – hundreds of educators filed in to Hoover High School. They were there for TechCon 2015, a two-day professional development conference on how technology and education go hand-in-hand. …
