Education & Outreach
- The herbarium, a treasure trove of more than 550,000 plant specimens, is leading a plant digitization project among 39 institutions and community outreach on Navajo land with implications in local climate research.
- A new partnership between CU Boulder and a local school district is helping kids to tell stories using digital tools—and they’re having fun re-imagining old fairy tales in the process.
- K-12 students around the world can now be a part of one of the largest Arctic climate research expeditions ever conducted. The new Arctic education newsletter directs teachers to real-time updates from the RV Polarstern, expedition-related activities and engaging videos.
- Doubling the time that kids spend in prekindergarten classes could have big benefits for their learning, a new study shows.
- For the first time ever, a new online resource will give anyone the opportunity to search through data on the academic performance of school kids across the country.
- This week's episode of the Brainwaves podcast will take a look at a system most of us have been through, but which we don't know everything about: public K-12 education.
- This year, 14 students visited El Paso, Texas, where they got a holistic education in immigration policy, meeting with everyone from migrants to border patrol agents.
- This year marks 20 years of funding programs that connect research, teaching and creative work with public needs in Colorado and beyond.
- In a new book, education researcher Elizabeth Dutro lays out a road map for teachers to bring the difficult life experiences of their students into everyday classwork.
- Erick Mueller, executive director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, has now reached every region of the state with his rural entrepreneurship workshops.