education

This may come as a surprise to many, but in a recent state ranking for 2021 by U.S. News & World Report, Montana ranked fairly low.

This week, students and families across the country are raising awareness for expanding K-12 educational opportunities.

As colleges scramble to prepare for a safe school year in the midst of the pandemic, are they prepared to enforce safe social distancing among their students?

But the bright outlook was met with skepticism from some outside the White House.

Yellowstone National Park's education rangers have been producing videos for the internet while the park is closed to visitors.

Montana's health department is concerned that the decline in the number of calls to the child abuse hotline since schools closed due to the coronavirus might be masking the danger that children are in.

We are all figuring out new ways to get stuff done with social distancing and quarantine guidelines. That includes Yellowstone National Park which has been doing educational sessions on Facebook.

As we make this leap together, we need to remind ourselves and our students that this shift will be different, messy, time-consuming, and challenging, and that above all we need to afford each other grace.

This week, I had a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discuss national responses to the COVID-19 outbreak and how the U.S. Department of Education can assist Montana schools.

Last year, Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen defeated challenger Mellissa Romano in the state Superintendent’s race, but this week, the two met again as Arntzen presented Romano with a big award.