New Jefferson County Superintendent Dan McMinimee spent Jeffco's first day back visiting seven schools, including Jefferson High and Edgewater Elementary, which have two of the district's highest number of students on free-and-reduced lunch.

School districts around Colorado are taking a variety of approaches to balance two sometimes competing concerns: how do you meet students’ and teachers’ need for increased access to educational technology and online media while simultaneously protecting their privacy?

In a program designed to get students in online schools to build in person connections, two high schoolers raised and trained lambs to take to the fair.

Despite improvements in education and health, Colorado's children's overall well-being is worse than almost half the nation's, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The annual report rates states using metrics in four areas, including education, economic well-being and health. Colorado ranked

Most people haven't heard of 3D modeling, and they probably have never created a video game from scratch, either, but a group of Denver students who participated in Denver Public Library's 2014 Summer of Tech knew exactly what they were doing. The 19 students -- most not much older than 12 -- met on Thursday

Educators from around the country -- current, future and retired teachers, higher education faculty and educational support professionals -- met Monday to beautify two Denver schools. About 400 National Education Association members, in town for the union's annual summer conference, volunteered as part of the

For about 55 Denver incoming high school freshman, the idea of using engineering software and a 3-D printer to transform their drawings into three-dimensional models seemed daunting. Devi Kalla, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Metropolitan State University, asked a group of the students if they

"Imagine waking up on the 13th birthday knowing something extraordinary was going to happen to you, but you didn't know what." This is the premise of the book chosen for this year's Youth One Book, One Denver summer reading program. "A savvy is a power that forces kids to make sense of themselves and make sense of

Denver area teachers met last week to discuss ways to work Common Core and Colorado Academic Standards around their lesson plans, rather than having to completely revamp curricula to meet the new standards.

Councilman Chris Herndon kicked off a week-long leadership conference for about 70 high school students from northeast Denver at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Franklin Medical Offices, located at 2045 E. Franklin St. Doctors, physician's assistants, radiologists and other medical professionals walked students through their careers and the importance of diversity and leadership skills in these fields.