education

There was some confusion at first, but the Missoula College is now able to offer the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program.

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Earlier this week, five states announced plans to add a minimum of 300 extra hours to molding young minds in the classroom next year in hopes of strengthening the American student performance.

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Academic All-State honors have been announced for students lettering in various fall sports at Hamilton High School.

To get All-State status, a student must letter in a sport while maintaining at least a 3

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The transition from 5th grade to middle school can be traumatic for students, so two groups are getting together to help make things a bit easier.

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High school students from 17 Montana and Idaho schools are in Missoula to attend the Montana Model United Nations Conference that continues through Tuesday at The University of Montana.

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"So, you're the parents of little Jimmy..."

That can be the beginning of an extremely nice conversation or just the opposite at a conference with your child's teacher. Yes, it's that time of year - Parent-Teacher Conferences!

The Hamilton School District has them planned over a two-day period this week and we have the schedule right here for Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15

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Anybody who's been to YouTube quickly becomes cynical about the future of the human race, particularly when you read the comments to... well... any video. But this PBS video argues that YouTube actually makes you smarter by lowering barriers to learning about literally any topic. And we have to admit, they've got a point. There are all sorts of educational videos on YouTube. Of course, there are also videos like this:

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Graduation Matters Missoula invites area students, teachers, parents and other community members to attend an update on the initiative’s progress.

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The MAPS (Media Arts in the Public Schools) Media Institute has continued to grow with successes piling up each year.

Most recently, a MAPS crew of high school students completed a series of interviews with some high-powered creative folks at the Hatch Festival in Bozeman

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The University of Montana's Center for Environmental Health Sciences just received a grant of $1.25 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to support environmental health education for thousands of middle and high school students in Montana, Idaho and Alaska.

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