Results for keyword: education
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Rural Education 2.0
Tiny Vilas, Colo., thought it was a great idea to open an online school and enroll at-risk students from far-away Denver – but neither the students nor the school district ended up scoring well at report card time
by Samuel Western, Apr 30, 2007 -
The decline of logging is now killing
Now that logging no longer provides enough money to support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves filled and accessible.
by Pepper Trail, Apr 09, 2007 -
Schooling, fish
Judge Jim Redden is right to push the Bush administration on salmon restoration, but fish may end up faring as poorly in courtrooms as San Francisco’s schoolchildren did after well-intentioned decisions on busing.
by John Mecklin, Jan 22, 2007 -
Finding hope in a new land
Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America is the story of Rose Castillo Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley
by Stephen J. Lyons, May 15, 2006 -
Ingredients: History, preservatives
In Preserving Western History, editor Andrew Gulliford has put together "the first college reader to address public history in the American West."
by Dave Phillips, May 01, 2006 -
Healing the border with words
Award-winning author Denise Chavez created the Border Book Festival, and founded a Cultural Center in Mesilla, N.M., to help heal the cultural wounds of the U.S.-Mexico border
by Susan J. Tweit, Dec 12, 2005 -
Getting high in class
Bruce Gordon started his nonprofit EcoFlight in Aspen, Colo., to take kids out of the classroom and let them see environmental issues from above, in his Cessna 210
by Josh Garrett-Davis, Dec 08, 2003






