Education News

The University of Montana is con sidering a plan to gradually increase admission standards and eventually funnel “ at-risk” students to the College of Technology in Butte for the early years of their higher education…

WASHINGTON — Salaries for the nation’s teachers just barely kept pace with living costs in the 1990s, rising 31 percent to about $43,000, the nation’s largest teachers union said Monday. By Greg Toppo of The…

Montana Tech students will use fish bones, wood bridges and chemistry to defend their title and the school’s reputation at a national design competition. By Barbara LaBoe, of The Montana Standard Fourteen students will leave…

Alarmed about the future of education in Montana, a new coalition of largely education groups has formed to raise public awareness of funding problems. By PETER JOHNSON Tribune Staff Writer "Stand Up for Education" is…

Just three years ago, it seemed that every third dorm room in the country was home to a would-be dot-com whose founders dreamed of making a million before they made it to graduation. By Ellen…

Ask Steve Hoyle where he sees the Helena College of Technology in the next few years, and his eyes light up and a smile spreads across his face. By LAURA TODE, IR Staff Writer He’s…

Cupertino High School gives struggling students Palms. East Side Union High School District is working to get laptops for all 24,000 of its students. By Katherine Corcoran Mercury News Across the nation, schools are taking…

HELENA — Forty-two of every 1,000 Montana high school students, and five of every 1,000 junior high students, dropped out of school dur ing the 2000-2001 school year, a new report from the Office of…

Montana State University wasn’t Zeb Barber’s first choice of colleges, but now he’s "super glad" to be at MSU, where he loves working in a laser laboratory on cutting-edge research. By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff…

More than 300 participants are expected at the annual Montana Wyoming Indian Education Association Conference next weekend at the Great Falls Heritage Inn. By PETER JOHNSON Tribune Staff Writer The 20th MWIEA conference, scheduled for…