Your guide to the Iowa Core Standards.
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Iowa review teams release recommendations to reform developmental education
Two work groups charged with studying ways to reduce the need for developmental college coursework today released recommendations that support Iowa’s vision for all students to graduate from high school ready for college and for college students to have the support they need to complete a degree
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Better together
Iowa adopted statewide standards for Fine Arts covering the K-12 areas of dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts last November. It has been a long time coming and many fine arts teachers across our state are rejoicing.
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Tiny office, big opportunity
MONTICELLO – A steel shipping container sitting outside the Jones County Regional Center in Monticello isn’t storing equipment or supplies.
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Side-by-side, different species, same journey. Everybody wins.
A quick visit to the classrooms at Crestview School of Inquiry in Clive when Ares, Zeus, or Apollo are on site is all it takes to understand that Akita puppies, children, and reading belong together.
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Coming full circle: Retiring principal returns to her beginnings
When Kathie Danielson first walked into Des Moines’ Hoover High School, it was the fall of 1974. Then, she was a student teacher. When she walks out of Hoover in a few months nearly 44 years later, she’ll be retiring as principal.
Headlines
- Learning opportunities abound this summer
- Iowa review teams release recommendations to reform developmental education
- School behavioral assessment training available
- Survey: What is the climate, culture at your child’s school?
- Iowa’s high school graduation rate is 91 percent
- Walker receives 2018 Lillian Wald award
