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Northwest Arkansas' largest school districts welcomed more than 500 teachers to their campuses this month, from recent graduates to experienced veterans.
Northwest Arkansas' largest school districts welcomed more than 500 teachers to their campuses this month, from recent graduates to experienced veterans.
The area's largest school districts welcomed more than 500 teachers to new campuses this month, from recent graduates to experienced veterans.
A Har-Ber High School teacher is the district's new academic coach, following an announcement made Tuesday night.
BENTONVILLE -- Administrators are studying giving teachers more than a 1 percent raise during the fall semester.
SPRINGDALE -- On any given school day, a child will need clothing, shoes or a coat.
SPRINGDALE -- On any given school day, a child will need clothing, shoes or a coat.
Rogers High School is among 11 Arkansas schools and one school district selected to participate in a professional learning communities pilot project.
SPRINGDALE -- Paul Tribble, a home-school student going into ninth grade, can't solve a Rubik's Cube, but he helped build a robot that can.
Beginning teacher pay in the School District is set to rise above $45,000 a year, following a 6-0 School Board vote Thursday night.
Costs at the start of a school year can be a burden for families living in poverty in Northwest Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE — A former Razorback football player was one of two men shot early Sunday morning in a university parking lot, according to police and other sourc…
Hunger relief in Northwest Arkansas involves more than the work of one individual, nonprofit group or corporation. It takes many parts pulling together for a c…
Superintendent Matthew Wendt is recommending raising teacher pay by $3,000 and hourly salaries by an average of 3.5 percent, he told School Board members duri…
Marcia Smith, one of the assistant superintendents for instruction, asked School Board members Tuesday about situations where they hear the phrase, "Game on."
Students who arrive on the first day of school next month will see new spaces across Benton and Washington counties.
Contested elections for school board positions have emerged in six school districts in Benton and Washington counties.
Northwest Arkansas is home to more and more people of different skin colors, ethnic backgrounds and languages, the latest census data show.
The administrative assistant is one of the first voices parents hear when they call with questions for school superintendents.
Rosalva Juarez sat one morning in the George Elementary School cafeteria with her 5-year-old daughter, turning pages and underlining words with her finger as t…
Kathy Lopez, 7, wrote on her piece of cloth she's from Austin and dreams of being a famous singer and dancer.
SPRINGDALE -- School officials have a short window to let seventh-graders know they can enroll in the Don Tyson School of Innovation for the coming school year.
FAYETTEVILLE — Changes in the district’s leadership are intended to make the school system more responsive to the needs of students and teachers, Superintenden…
Elementary schools in the fall will make sure pupils have 20 to 30 minutes each school day to read books, and a new campaign by the district aims to promote r…
Teacher salaries will get an extra bump in their pay, based on changes approved to the School District's salary schedule.
Those seeking greater influence over their local schools may pursue one of 21 school board seats up for election in Benton and Washington counties this year.
Easton Baker, who recently finished second grade, stood in a hall at Har-Ber High School showing Sally Newton, a fourth-grade teacher, how to control a robot.
Applications for the state lottery scholarship, the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship, are due in less than 10 days for state residents entering college …
Rising student numbers on some campuses have led school district officials to search for a company to study enrollment patterns.
Four retiring education leaders in Northwest Arkansas have helped shape gifted and talented education since it was introduced to the state.
A mix of familiar faces and some new faces will be part of the School District's administrative team for the 2017-18 school year.
Strong population growth in Northwest Arkansas overcame losses in the Delta and Pine Bluff to increase Arkansas' overall population last year, according to new…
They persisted. And now seven new high school graduates have opportunities awaiting them this fall at top institutions, including Princeton University.
School districts in Northwest Arkansas hope to provide meals to more children this summer.
BENTONVILLE -- Superintendent Debbie Jones plans to provide junior high school students with an option to continue their education during an expulsion.
SPRINGDALE -- Springdale schools Superintendent Jim Rollins and his staff are ready to expand the Don Tyson School of Innovation, if the School Board is ready.
Leaders seeking to establish a Catholic high school in Northwest Arkansas plan to open for the 2018-19 academic year at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Tontitown.
FAYETTEVILLE -- A tutorial on creating a classroom webpage started a two-year technological transformation in Lacey Bingaman's English class at Holt Middle Sch…
FAYETTEVILLE -- School Board members voted Thursday to spend about $1 million to upgrade the district's bus fleet.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Grants for teachers this school year supported a variety of learning experiences from rocketry to orchestra.
SPRINGDALE -- Now that every student has access to a laptop or tablet computer at school, learning with technology is possible at any moment.
Two of the five classroom aides on leave since last month's death of a first-grader were cleared to return to work at Vandergriff Elementary School, according …
Jobs in factories today require skills to design and repair robotics equipment now common in manufacturing, U.S. Sen. John Boozman said on a visit Friday to t…
A chant of, "Lift that beam," sounded as a construction crew placed the final wooden beam on top of a new innovation center that will be ready for The New Scho…
A Republican state representative from Rogers wants state grades given to schools to reflect more than what students score on one standardized test given annua…
SPRINGDALE -- Pairing School District curriculum writers with classroom teachers gives both a chance to see how students respond to strategies intended to keep…
School District leaders envision the possibility of sixth- and seventh-graders joining eighth- through 12th-graders at the Tyson School of Innovation.
Enrollment continues to slide in the School District of about 1,075 student just a little more than 10 miles south of Fayetteville.
A new regional science specialist will help schools tie science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction together while students have a chance to l…
Superintendent Matthew Wendt is searching for a deputy or associate superintendent to oversee people in the School District, one of three divisions that will b…
The elementary schools sit 11 miles apart, one in Fayetteville and the other in Springdale.