By Boulder Weekly Staff - Jul. 17, 2024

The Education Issue

Welcome to Boulder Weekly‘s 2024 Education Issue! It’s a big topic to cover, and we are by no means the experts (See the pros at Chalkbeat for that.) We still brought you news...

By Adam Perry - Jul. 17, 2024

Teaching moment

After helping launch Boulder’s New Vista High School more than three decades ago, longtime teachers Jaye and John Zola still think about an early student named Daniel. “Daniel had a...

By John Lehndorff - Jul. 17, 2024

Do you speak tapas?

For a diehard foodie, learning how to make croissants sounds like fun. It’s acquiring a skill that will repay the effort in flavor for decades to come. For many home...

By Will Matuska - Jul. 17, 2024

Learning environment

The tentacles of serendipity are what reeled Molly Weber into the topic of climate change: her twin sister’s eighth-grade fascination with jellyfish. “She started learning about the ocean, because you...

By Shawn Harris - Jul. 16, 2024

4 free perks for Colorado 4th graders

Being a fourth grader in Colorado has a few educational perks. From a national parks pass to a membership at the History Colorado museum, these incentives tie closely to Colorado...

By Shay Castle - Jul. 16, 2024

The pot blind spot

T, a student at a Colorado medical school, can count on one hand the things she’s learned about cannabis and psychedelics from her professors. “We’ve had probably two hour-and-a-half lectures...

By Kevin C. Johnson - Jul. 16, 2024

8 questions to ask your child’s teacher

Back-to-school night is a yearly tradition where parents learn the culture and feel of the classroom, expectations and daily schedule for their child’s learning day. This night also allows parents...

By Kaylee Harter - Jul. 15, 2024

Empty desks

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, classrooms sat vacant as students moved to virtual instruction. Four years later, schools have moved back to in-person instruction, but some classrooms have remained...