Technology helps teach Navajo in new ways
TUCSON – Learning a new language can be hard, especially when the language is as scarce and complicated as the Navajo language.
Arizona still gets D+ on schools report card, despite some modest gains
WASHINGTON - Arizona student test scores stayed level from 2013 to 2015 while scores nationally declined slightly, but the state's marginal gains were not enough to lift it out of the bottom ranks on a new national report card.
Douglas: K-12 schools moving ‘one step closer’ to improvement
Arizona’s top schools chief, Diane Douglas, said she will focus in 2016 on improving schools’ basement-level academic performance and will closely watch a May election to see if voters will put more money toward schools.
Google takes Horizon Community Learning Center across the world
Faith Manegold, a ninth-grader at Horizon Community Learning Center, walks around a cathedral in Verona, Italy. She examines the details of the structure and imagines the scenes of Romeo and Juliet that she is learning in class. However, she hasn’t stepped foot outside of her school’s multipurpose room in Phoenix.
Navajo welcome $45 million from feds for schools, but say need persists
WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Sally Jewell delivered $45 million of "long overdue" construction funds Thursday for two long-neglected schools in the Navajo Nation, the last of 14 schools promised funding there 12 years ago.
Storify: State of the Union Address coverage
This Storify previews and covers the 2016 State of the Union Address, the last for President Obama.
Elusive NFL QB Cunningham enters College Football Hall of Fame as punter
SCOTTSDALE – Randall Cunningham created a lasting legacy for himself as a quarterback in the NFL using his arm and running ability. But he needed his punting leg to get him into the College Football Hall of Fame.
As Arizona’s Native American students struggle to stay in school, tribal leaders move to help
Rosalie Lalo was five-years-old when the U.S. government sent her to the Phoenix Indian School, more than 200 miles away from her Hopi family home. She was forbidden to speak her native language, her long hair was cut, and she was stripped of a traditional Hopi childhood.
South Mountain Community College pushes to correct course on graduation and retention rates
The call came two weeks before Joana Sotelo's birthday in February 2013: her brother had been deported to Mexico.
Brunson-Lee students making significant achievements, despite economic, educational challenges
Rachael DeFraesart’s Room 122 is full of all the fourth grade trappings: Posters that diagram long multiplication and illustrate phonics, define vocabulary words and offer inspiration.
Arizona charter schools turn 20 with higher test scores
Nestled between a taco shop, a gas station and a church lies the Gilbert campus of Leading Edge Academy. A former Albertsons grocery store on the strip mall is what the small public school calls home.
West Phoenix piano teacher’s lessons go beyond music
Christmas songs play from a piano and echo throughout the halls of a West Phoenix home.
