Why would a batch of Arizonans make a whirlwind roundtrip to Des Moines on a wet and chilly Monday in November, when the temps in the desert were (ho) in the mid-80s and skies were (hum) sunny? Because the …

Science and music staged a dynamic duet during a pair of assemblies at McCombs Middle School on Monday that it’s tempting to describe as splash mobs. Water Rocks! is a roadshow that barnstorms the state, spreading the increasingly …

When ground was broken on the new gym/event space at Cowles Montessori last year, the expectation was that a multipurpose facility would be the end result. But nobody envisioned what the occasion for the first all-school assembly there …

A 6th grader who moved to Urbandale from California when she was five or six sat across from an 8th grader who moved to Des Moines from Thailand two years ago. “Your handwriting is great – way better than mine,” …

Some real students of physics stayed after school on Thursday at Central Academy – for a history lesson? Dr. Bill Barry has been NASA’s chief historian since 2010. In town to deliver a lecture Thursday night at Drake …