Education

Gov. Terry Branstad will visit three Iowa school districts this month to learn how they have improved students’ reading skills by the end of third grade. Among the schools Branstad will visit is Olmsted Elementary …

Drake University today announced a new tuition guarantee, which will allow the vast majority of undergraduate students to pay the same tuition price when they move in as freshmen as when they get their diplomas. …

Iowa State University President Steven Leath has proposed a tuition plan that would charge first- and second-year students less than juniors and seniors, The Des Moines Register reported. “It’s a straightforward approach,” Leath said Wednesday during his …

A series of free and low-cost public events at Drake University will highlight the experiences of social justice scholars and leaders from developing countries around the world. The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship at …

For the eighth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report this week ranked Drake University third for overall quality among regional universities in the Midwest. The organization’s Best Colleges 2017 rankings also named Drake an “A+ School …

Grand View University announced a 26 percent increase in the size of its freshman class over fall 2015, making it the third-largest incoming class in the university’s history. Full-time enrollment is also up this year, …

Simpson College announced it will partner with RABA Research, a bipartisan polling firm launched this year, to conduct joint polling of political races. Simpson’s political science department and its nonpartisan John C. Culver Public Policy Center will …