During the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange traveled the nation, capturing images on behalf of the Farm Security Administration. Her iconic photos humanized the impact of the Great Depression. Carol Highsmith, herself a renowned photographer, looks to Lange as …
The DMPS invasion of the Iowa Events Center continued unabated Tuesday on Day Two of the first, but officially not last, Summit on School Climate and Culture. Thumbs were up all over and so was enthusiasm among the 1,200 …
Students won’t report until later this month but the 2016-17 school year effectively began Monday morning when the first annual DMPS Summit on School Climate and Culture got off to a rousing start at the Iowa Events Center …
La Tomatina is an annual summer festival in a Spanish village. Thousands of people from all over the world come for the “World’s Biggest Food Fight” and hurl more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes at …
If you were a refugee who escaped a war-torn homeland and you were doubly lucky you’d be welcomed wherever you landed by a man the likes of Vinh Nguyen. His official title at Des Moines Public Schools is …
