New school year brings record enrollment

By randy wyrick

EAGLE COUNTY — All sorts of numbers will be up as local students head back to class today. But life for students and teachers will be a little different this school year, in keeping with incremental changes Eagle County Schools has been making in instruction for the past few years.Once upon a time, students sat in neat rows, absorbing information from their teachers. It was sort of like turning out products on an assembly line, said Jason Glass, superintendent of Eagle County Schools.Education doesn’t work that way any longer, Glass said.“Putting students at the center of their own learning is …

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