Washington notices Colorado’s creative ways to improve health in rural schools. The president of the Colorado Legacy Foundation is in Washington this week to share stories with federal officials.

A new program in Colorado aimed at teaching fifth-graders to make healthy food choices is modeled after Ski Country USA’s popular fifth grade passport program.

A mom wants to get some help with fun, healthy snacks for her kids after-school and also to share at end-of-the-school-year parties. Get some tips, including how to make a pepper in hummus look like a swimming octopus.

Find out about some great online resources and apps that might just make your summer better than you imagined, with your kids occupied and still learning. Face it, they’ll probably be spending some time on-line, it may as well be useful.

Already worried about how much knowledge your child could lose this summer? The long break doesn’t have to be all fun and games. There are lots of ways to keep their young brains fired up. Get some tips from the experts.

Read this story by EdNews Colorado reporter Nancy Mitchell to find out about Colorado’s reading gender gap, how a much-lauded Denver school took a TCAP nose dive and how a low-scoring rural school made a big jump.

This editor was shocked to see her most recent iTunes bill – and so was her 9-year-old daughter. Turns out free game apps can be insidiously misleading when it comes to the upgrades needed to play them.

An expert from the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at CU-Boulder responds to a parent’s questions about why cyber-bullies often go uncaught, and what we can do to protect our children from online bullying.

The much-acclaimed Bully, a 2011 documentary about bullying in U.S. schools, opened in Denver Friday night with a PG-13 rating, thanks to the removal of some expletives that had earlier earned it an R-rating. Do you plan to see it?