by - September 19, 2012 12:01 pm
A $5 million gift from the Tyson family and Tyson Foods will establish a research and residency program at Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The Tyson Scholars of…
by - September 19, 2012 9:10 am
Voters in Arkansas school elections said yes to two school districts requesting millage increases Tuesday and no to three others. Stuttgart voters approved a five-mill increase, 464-269, that would raise…
by - September 18, 2012 8:18 pm
Dr. Greg Murry, Superintendent of the Conway School District, received the 2013 Arkansas Superintendent of the Year Award during a surprise announcement at a dedication of the new Conway High…
by - September 17, 2012 10:07 pm
Legislators debating a proposed state rule to limit the use of public funds for religious instruction at Arkansas pre-schools couldn’t find agreement on Monday.
by - September 16, 2012 4:53 pm
Hendrix College in Conway was awarded a $1,118,063 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support a five-year education research project to recruit and prepare 19 outstanding STEM…
by - September 11, 2012 10:23 pm
Dr. Charles L. “Chuck” Welch has already had a near-lifetime of achievement for many university presidents and he’s only in his first year.
by - September 10, 2012 8:00 pm
A program that offers financial incentives to both high school students and teachers to pass Advanced Placement tests produced 43 percent of successful test-takers in Arkansas last year, despite existing…
by - September 5, 2012 12:10 pm
Jim and Joyce Faulkner of Little Rock have gifted the University of Arkansas $6 million to turn the Old Field House into a performing arts center. The state-of-the-art venue will…
by - September 5, 2012 8:27 am
A new report highlights low levels of third grade reading proficiency, but advocacy groups and state policy leaders are embarking on a new initiative to improve those numbers. The report,…
by - September 4, 2012 11:15 am
Republicans in the Arkansas House of Representatives are considering legislation that could empower an entity other than the state Board of Education to authorize charter schools. Other possible legislation would create a tax credit scholarship program that would enable students to attend private schools.
by - August 30, 2012 9:23 am
The new Crystal Bridges Museum is marrying education and art in an effort to strengthen — and pay for — innovative classroom teaching.
by - August 29, 2012 8:51 am
A campaign coordinated by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation will result in community grants and legislative policy proposals to improve the reading performance of Arkansas’ third-graders. The statewide efforts are part…
by - August 28, 2012 7:51 am
Arkansas ranked ninth out of 41 states in student achievement gains from 1992 until 2010, according to a new report by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and the…
by - August 27, 2012 11:53 am
University of Arkansas officials described the new school year as a “record-breaker” as preliminary enrollment numbers indicate the state’s flagship institution set new records. Total enrollment was roughly 24,600 students,…
by - August 23, 2012 10:37 am
A new national survey shows that Arkansas teachers see a higher percentage of hungry children in the classroom than the U.S. average. The No Kid Hungry campaign, conducted by hunger…
by - August 22, 2012 8:20 am
Bucking a national trend, Arkansas’ ACT scores among high school seniors saw an increase, according to the 2012 ACT report. Roughly 88% of Arkansas’s 2012 graduating seniors took the ACT…
by - August 21, 2012 11:11 pm
Cyd King with our content partner, The City Wire, spent Day Two of the new semester at the University of Arkansas following Chancellor David Gearhart. His day begins early around…
by - August 21, 2012 3:35 pm
University of Arkansas System President Donald R. Bobbitt announced the formation of an advisory search committee to assist in finding a new chancellor at the University of Arkansas at Pine…
by - August 20, 2012 3:29 pm
The 23-state consortium that is generating the tests Arkansas students will take under the Common Core State Standards today released its first prototypes for future test questions.
by - August 20, 2012 8:54 am
Allowing schools to be more innovative in meeting student needs is one reason why the Arkansas Department of Education is considering a top-to-bottom review of the standards for accreditation.
