By: Karen Cicero | Studio One Eight in ten teens have a profile on at least one of the many social media websites out there and most of them are on it daily, according to a recent report. This is hardly
By Bailey Netsch | Cronkite News Children and teens who crowded into the library at Central High School picked up more than just musical notes at Mariachi workshops held recently in the Valley. “That’s what I come for the most, to
By: Samantha Witherwax Cronkite News (Phoenix, Ariz.) – When the sprinklers come on in the Washington Elementary School District, you can bet the soil needs a drink. The district has planted wireless irrigation controllers that measure moisture in the soil ensuring
By: Jesse A. Millard Cronkite News This week’s landmark announcement that the surface of Mars has liquid water links back to a University of Arizona laboratory where students and faculty monitor images from an orbiting camera. In 2010, Lujendra Ojha, then
By: James Anderson Cronkite News (Glendale, Ariz.) – Lisa Marsh and Diane Gordon spent this morning sitting outside a recreational center here and asking registered voters to help recall Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas. Marsh and Gordon have been gathering signatures
The Phoenix Mercury team is known for their community involvement. Most recently, the team visited Herrera Elementary school in Phoenix, where they held a reading assembly entirely in Spanish. Not only was the assembly aimed at teaching students the importance
By: James Anderson Cronkite News (Phoenix, Ariz.) – Poor reading results from third-graders’ first round with the state’s new AzMERIT test aren’t bad news to one education advocate. Pearl Chang Esau, CEO of Expect More Arizona calls it a sign that Arizona has
By: James Anderson Cronkite News (Phoenix, Ariz.) – An organization seeking to recall Diane Douglas filed paperwork Tuesday to start gathering signatures, with its chairman saying the state schools superintendent has done nothing to improve education. “Her entire candidacy and her
By James Anderson | Cronkite News The state’s failure to pay public schools hundreds of millions in court-ordered funding has chased competent teachers from classrooms, education advocates said at a demonstration Thursday. “Programs have been cut. Class sizes have risen because the
By Tyler Freader | Cronkite News Perry High School’s badminton team is good. So good that the team finished as the runner-up in Arizona’s Division I state badminton finals last season. But Perry’s success on the court doesn’t make the team or
