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Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

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Students leave teacher with lasting message

Sergio Calderon April 24, 2017

Walking into the administration offices of Agua Fria High School in Avondale, Arizona, Joshua Murray, 25, had no idea he would become known as the crazy teacher. What Murray has accomplished in...

Pictured here is a first grade class at Dunbar in 1951. Many African American students from around the community attended the school.

Roses that grew from concrete: The Dunbar School

Mihdi Afnan April 21, 2016

Just north of downtown, a wrought-iron fence surrounding a simple white building gives no clue of the historical importance of what’s inside. A barber academy in a small classroom and a dance...

STEM education offers promise of jobs

STEM education offers promise of jobs

Michael Edmond March 24, 2016

    The state of Arizona has twice the amount of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) job openings than workers who are qualified to fill them. With a 2-to-1 ratio of job...

Preparation for new Arizona civics exam begins

Michael Edmond February 18, 2016

  Lexi Noble, a 10th-grader in the Flagstaff Unified School District, had little time to prepare for a prototype of Arizona's new civics exam. Her AP World History teacher emailed "us the...

A young boy harvests cholla buds. Photo courtesy of TOCA.

Historical crops may be the future of sustainable agriculture

Gareth Farrell May 6, 2015

Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region.Before Arizona...

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