The benefits of summer camp
By Jeannine Tidwell Reader Contributor There are universal hopes and aspirations for parents in their children learning and growing with health and happiness. We wish for them to love themselves, enjoy the lives they...
Category: Education
SHS Acadeca team headed to nationals
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For most high school students, the thought of homework over summer vacation, studying through lunch period and extra curricular study assignments would send them running for the hills. For...
What Do You Think About 7B Education?
By Marcia Wilson Reader Contributor What do you think about education in Idaho? The Panhandle Alliance for Education wants to know, and has just launched a community survey to help learn more about the...
Fishing for education
By Reader Staff Attention all Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club (LPOIC) members, anglers and, more importantly, mothers and fathers. Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club is always looking for ways to improve our lake, our...
Where to send your kids for summer camp
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s that time of year again… for summer camp? That’s right. You’d be surprised how fast some of these camps fill up. As we have done every year, here...
Walkout: Over 100 Sandpoint High School students show support for Parkland shooting victims in a walkout Wednesday
By Cameron Rasmusson and Ben Olson Reader Staff More than 100 Sandpoint High School students walked out of their classrooms and outside into the early spring drizzle Wednesday morning, joining thousands of their peers across...
SHS Science Circuit
By Erin Meek Reader Contributor Students, friends and scientists alike: Come together in triumph as Sandpoint High School’s fifth-annual Science Circuit is back, and the entire community is welcome. Visitors will be able to explore...
As a student…
By Simon Eaton Reader Contributor Kids laughing as they think up new ideas for projects, soft instrumental music playing to help students concentrate on their geometry test, lively debate thriving in government class: These...
Idaho Senate includes climate change in approved science standards
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Idaho Senate Education Committee voted Feb. 22 to approve proposed science standards in full, despite the House committee’s request to remove parts of the standards that mentioned climate...
Idaho’s climate science saga continues
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The Idaho Senate Education Committee addressed proposed science standards Wednesday afternoon, marking the latest in the controversy of minimizing climate change in required Idaho curriculum. The House Education...
