The student-poets that put Movement 515 in motion are typically seen doing their thing live. The finished products they perform are polished and ripe. But Thursday night was different. This time they were the stars of a documentary …

Perkins Elementary School teacher Zac Christensen has been named an Iowa finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s top honor for K-12 math and science teachers. If he wins the award, …

The High School Band in September by Reed Whittemore On warm days in September the high school band Is up with the birds and marches along our street, Boom boom, To a field where it goes boom boom …

Harrison Barnes dropped 40 on East High School on Thursday. Trees, not points. As an ambassador for Hy-Vee’s One Step community betterment program, Barnes made time in what’s been, to put it quite mildly, a busy year for …

Governor Branstad holds weekly press conferences and chose Jackson Elementary as the site for this week’s on Tuesday morning. He wanted a school setting to announce an increased emphasis on teaching Iowa history in Iowa schools. Maybe Hoover …