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 …

What do Blank Children’s Hospital and Lincoln High School’s Theatre Arts program have in common? Come to the school’s production of The Humor Games this weekend and see for yourself. The show parodies the popular book/cinema series The …

Roosevelt High School was the site Monday morning for an important announcement about a new battlefront in the fight to stem the opioid epidemic plaguing the nation. UnityPoint Health announced its sponsorship of a national education program for …