SOE Curriculum Library, May 16 at 11 am
Author: Carl Olsen (Carl Olsen)
Book Arts series concludes with program on calligraphy
Jean Wilson will present "Calligraphy and Penmanship" at 2 p.m.
Budget Shortages Give Superintendent New Role
There was a time long ago when school administrators spent their time on education. They set curriculum, reviewed textbooks, evaluated teachers and explored ways to inspire students. Nowadays, administrators spend their time fretting over balance sheets. The state is short on money, so schools are short on money. This caused Rick Rubino to open his...
Middleton Honored During All Staff Event
Mary Middleton, Accounting and Human Resource Manager for Drake Head Start, was honored with the Spotlight Award during All Staff Council's Best in Show event.
Anne Murr: A Literacy Superwoman
From Times Delphic writer Emily Krstulic Two middle-aged men sit at a round table among rows of low bookshelves. One man, with graying hair and a faded John Deere hat, slowly reads a list of sentences from a spiral notebook, stuttering over the word “splattered.” His tutor, a younger man in a blue polo, wears...
Drake seniors to present public relations plan to Iowa Area Education Agencies
Presentations will focus on the Iowa Core initiative that aims to improve literacy, mathematics, science, social studies and 21st century skills.
CPHS students to receive pins marking ‘rite of passage’
Third-year health sciences and professional pharmacy students will take part in a College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Graduate Seminar and Recognition Ceremony on Thursday, May 6.
Drake series to wrap up by honoring emerging writers
Andrew Porter, winner of Drake's Emerging Writer Award in Short Fiction, will read from his prose at 7:30 p.m. in the Cowles Reading Room.
Dean of Cowles Library to lead academic library consortium
Rod Henshaw will serve a one-year term and Drake will host the group's annual conference in 2011.