Smart Board, June 7 | Education

Joan S. Reed

State provides over 700 sites for kids to get free lunches Free meals are available to kids at more than 700 locations across New Mexico this summer through programs run by the state. Most sites serve lunch and many also serve breakfast, according to the Public Education Department. Meal sites […]

Video games help St. Landry students hone math, science skills

Joan S. Reed

St. Landry Parish teachers are helping students develop missed skills by letting them enter a world they already know well — that of video games. “Ninety percent of children 6-18 play video games regularly; 50{13aab5633489a05526ae1065595c074aeca3e93df6390063fabaebff206207ec} of parents play video games with kids regularly,” Port Barre Middle School teacher Sandra Castille said. “Game-based learning uses this medium to […]