Thanks to the energy of fifth-grader Emaleigh Criswell, students at College Lane Elementary School now have two bright red benches where they can go to sit if they find themselves bereft of playmates during recess. On Tuesday, Emaleigh dedicated the benches as her parents, Brian and Tonya Criswell, her grandmother, Sandra Hubbard, and the entire College Lane student body watched …

Laura Hunt’s defense of her doctoral dissertation University of the Southwest was unique in several ways. First, Hunt is the first doctoral candidate at the university and she represented an important step in the evolution of the school’s academic program. The university has offered Masters degrees in business and in educational leadership for several years. School administrators said pans are …

Trump to order colleges to back free speech or lose funding By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday requiring U.S. colleges to certify that they protect free speech on their campuses or risk losing federal research funding, White House officials said. Trump initially proposed the idea during a March 2 speech …

Every Hobbs secondary school participated in a weekend Science Olympiad Regional competition at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. The majority of the Hobbs teams qualifed for the state contest on Feb. 23 at New Mexico Tech in Socorro. In addition, there were a number of first-place finishers from individual schools. Hobbs High School finished in third-place overall in the …

The Hobbs Municipal Schools is ramping up the exploration of a possible career technician school in Hobbs. The idea is to gather as much information about the impact and cost such a school would have in the Hobbs community and then present it to voters for bond approval. During his report to the Hobbs School Board last week, Superintendent TJ …

An early childhood educator of 38 years standing left a message asking if I had advice for encouraging cooperation from parents. She reports what every veteran teacher (defined as having 20 years or more classroom experience) I have spoken with over the past 40 years reports: to wit, that it is the rare parent who does not become defensive, even …

New Mexico Junior College and Texas Tech University have signed a memorandum of understanding to help students transfer more easily to Texas Tech. Kelvin Sharp, president of NMJC, and Lawrence Schovanec, president of Texas Tech University, met in Lubbock to sign the historic agreement. The institutions also signed an animal sciences agreement that will allow students at NMJC to feed …

A group of Lovington High School video gamers won’t be competing in state eSport tournaments this season after the Board of Education tabled a motion to approve student participation in eGame competitions early this month. “This is brand new to the whole state, not just to Lovington,” said Lovington High School Athletic Director and Activity Coordinator Robert Arreola about eGaming. …

Broadmoor students, teachers and staff were feeling blue Monday, and that was a good thing. The Hobbs elementary school was recognized as the only New Mexico public school to receive a National Blue Ribbon School honor for its work in making “notable improvements in closing the achievement gap,” according to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. That work took place …

EUNICE — Struggling to alleviate traffic congestion around the city’s schools, the Eunice City Council again attacked the issue with discussion and the first reading of a new ordinance Tuesday. The council approved an ordinance during the summer switching one-way travel on certain streets in the area of Eunice schools during school hours in the school year, but some of …