Lexi Noble, a 10th-grader in the Flagstaff Unified School District, had little time to prepare for a prototype of Arizona’s new civics exam. Her AP World History teacher emailed “us the study questions the day before we took it,” she said. “I was not even aware we were taking the test until I got the email.”…
Many rural Arizona schools lack the proper funds to start or expand their AP programs, including Tombstone High School, which lacks any such classes, and educators say this can be a serious detriment to students preparing for college. “We used to want the kids to go to college and be successful,” said Andrea Overman, Douglas High…
Doug Ducey wants to continue to expand the role of charter schools in the Arizona education system. However if you walk down the street and ask anyone what a charter school is, exactly, you will get a muddled response of confusion. So here is a primer on charter school education. Arizona has 531 charter schools…
First-grader Cooper Goffeney peered through the magnifying glass to scan a tree branch for butterfly larva. His class at Davis Bilingual Magnet School in Tucson that day was learning about insect biology.
As students move out from under their parents’ roofs and into an independent life in college, professors become the prominent adult figures in their day-to-day lives. Students are advised to create professional relationships with their professors in order to make the most out of their higher education experience, but with professors and students working together…
