Archive By Section - Education
Four-year-old Zayde Sands does everything with his left hand.
September 26, 2015
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Matthew Williams
Deseret News
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Education
CHICAGO — It's 10 a.m., class change time in Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, and students are churning between rooms. The boys in dark slacks, colored dress shirts and ties, the girls dressed similarly.
September 24, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
At-risk youths who held a summer job may also improve their school test scores this year, a new National Bureau of Economic Research study finds.
September 22, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
A professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley wants to change sneezing forever.
September 18, 2015
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Herb Scribner
Deseret News
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Education
The CDC is urging U.S. high schools and middle schools to start class at 8:30 a.m. or later, but found that only 1 in 5 of these schools start first period that late.
September 18, 2015
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Matthew Williams
Deseret News
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Education
There was a lot said during Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate. Candidates opened up about national security, foreign policy and taxation, according to The Atlantic, and spent a bulk of the three-hour debate sparring with each other.
September 18, 2015
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Herb Scribner
Deseret News
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Education
Rachael Larimore maintained a 4.0 GPA and garnered 12 varsity sports letters during high school — but whenever she struggles to use a camera at vacations or sporting events, she does have some regret about her experience as a student, she wrote for Slate.
September 17, 2015
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Payton Davis
Deseret News
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Education
SAT scores for 2014 hit their lowest mark in the past 10 years, the College Board reports, leading some observers to fear that a decade of school reforms have amounted to little.
September 17, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
When Becca Arbacher chose to attend a private college, she made a choice different from 80 percent of her peers, according to NPR.
September 16, 2015
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Payton Davis
Deseret News
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Education
Parents who hope their child is using a calculator to do better in math class might be getting fooled, according to BuzzFeed.
September 15, 2015
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Payton Davis
Deseret News
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Education
After deliberating for nearly a year, and waiting until two weeks after school started, the Washington State Supreme Court struck down a charter school law narrowly approved by voters in 2012.
September 15, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Embracing ignorance is the key to expanding knowledge, argues the author of a new book on ignorance, writing in the New York Times.
September 12, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
"Code me some Java" is the new "como se llama."
September 12, 2015
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Herb Scribner
Deseret News
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Education
A new Nevada law that would create educational savings accounts that parents could use to mix and match educational needs has come under fire, with the ACLU filing a lawsuit alleging that parents who choose to use those funds to pay tuition at religious schools would be violating the state's Blaine Amendment.
September 11, 2015
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Entering kindergarten is an early milestone in a person's life, and a Missouri father didn't want to miss his daughter's first day, according to Daily Mail.
September 10, 2015
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Payton Davis
Deseret News
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Education
