Successful day at school starts before bell rings
What is the single most important thing a parent can do to help a child succeed in school? Some longtime educators in Sunnyside Unified School District say the No. 1 thing for younger children has nothing to do with books ...
Uniforms' goal to level learning field
Several thousand local kids won't have much choice when they shop for school clothes this year - they go to a growing number of public schools that require uniforms. Two schools - Pistor Middle School in TUSD ...
Meals more nutritious, but will kids buy into them?
Do the math: One hundred and seventy-eight days of school multiplied by the number of Spider-Man and Barbie lunchboxes on your kitchen counter. It can add up to a heck of a lot of PB&J. Opting out or taking ...
Packin' a lunch
Do the math: One hundred and seventy-eight days of school multiplied by the number of Spider-Man and Barbie lunchboxes on your kitchen counter. It can add up to a heck of a lot of PB&J. Opting out or taking ...
Wow! It's a whole new world
Samantha Rivera stacks multicolored blocks on top of one another - green, blue, then blue again. She pays no attention to three 5-year-old boys playing loudly nearby or another kindergartner ...
New and nervous
When Briana McKenzie made the transition from elementary to middle school last fall, she went from a small, cozy school to one triple the size, with seemingly endless rows of lockers and teachers to get to know ...
HIGH SCHOOL LIFE: Making the most of it
Ricky Pintor will start and end each day of his senior year at Flowing Wells High School with his shoes off. The 17-year-old is a cadet teacher in a beginning dance class at 7:35 each morning. It gets him ...
Learning not a quest for grades
Back to school. Much like "the holidays," the phrase has become a part of the American lexicon. There are strong emotions involved with our everlasting quest to educate ourselves; that's why those three words ...
Tears flow as littlest one, 3, worries about not being able to read
He was a warm, pink bundle in my arms, the baby we had hoped and prayed for. He was healthy and beautiful, and he was ours. Having babies hadn't come easily, but Adam was ours. Now he's more than 5 feet tall ...
There's a method to madness of getting your kids off to school
Now that school is almost under way, here are some tips on how to get teenagers to school each morning when you are a working single mom. 1. Get up. Run into their rooms after you have pressed the snooze button ...
Scores show no progress
Pima County school districts made no major gains on the annual Stanford 9 standardized test, and in some larger districts, the trend in scores this spring was downward. Fourth-, seventh- and ...
