Education
Med students mix volunteerism, fitness in KC’s Historic Northeast
It was windy and unseasonably warm, but that didn’t stop a group of students from Scuola Vita Nuova Charter School from gathering one afternoon this week for their long-distance-running training session. Sweating right along with the roughly two dozen fifth- through eighth-graders was a trio of medical students from Kansas City University of Medicine and…
Agreeability trumps algebra, Kansans tell state education officials
Kansas residents, educators and business leaders agree that academic know-how takes a backseat to “soft” skills, such as being agreeable and conscientious, when it comes molding the next generation of workers. That was one big takeaway from a 90-minute presentation delivered in Olathe Tuesday by Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson and his deputy, Brad…
Finding solutions for the student-transfer problem
Kansas City building toward solutions for student-transfer problem When dozens of educators and social service professionals gathered recently in Kansas City to discuss the problem of transient students, the proposed solutions essentially boiled down to old-fashioned personal interventions and technology-driven assistance. The occasion for the gathering was a Student Mobility Summit convened by Kansas City…
Blue Springs educator named tops in Missouri
Linda Glasgow, a third-grade teacher at John Nowlin Elementary School in Blue Springs, has been named Missouri’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Grandview superintendent to retire
Kansas City-area school districts have seen a ton of superintendent turnover within the past few years, and the trend continued Friday with the announcement that Grandview’s Ralph Teran will retire at the end of this school year after a decade in the job. The school board lauded Teran for helping to improve student achievement in…