The initiatives are at the heart of Waterloo Community Schools' efforts to create smaller learning communities for students at East -- with about 1,200 students -- and West -- with more than 1,800.

Adolescence is a time of big change, intellectually, socially and emotionally. For many teenagers, school is where they learn ...

A story on Page 6A Friday several times included an incorrect term when it referred to what are known as smaller learning communities. BOX: The fed on smaller learning communities About 70 percent of ...

Prince George's County public schools launched a grant-funded Smaller Learning Communities initiative this school year to redesign a cluster of five large high schools -- Crossland, DuVal, Potomac, ...

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – The Egg Harbor Township School District is continuing its mission of converting to smaller learning communities with the introduction of the Medical Science Academy at the high ...

A federal grant to create smaller communities within local high schools doesn't mean the world of every high school student will shrink this year, the Bend-La Pine School Board learned Tuesday night.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- Even with just 12 students, the Providing Hope classroom at South Sioux City High School is a busy place. On a 10-minute break, the kids leave and return to the room with giant ...

Sioux City Community School District officials traveled to the nation's capitol last month to seek support for their concept of forming a "school within a school." Following a Capitol Hill meeting ...

VINELAND - The Board of Education may act on the future of small learning communities at Vineland High School, but just when that will happen this week depends on the weather. The board may take ...