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Your responses to our NFL Concussion Survey

FRONTLINE’s League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis airs on October 8, 2013. Before this investigation into traumatic brain injury and the NFL is broadcast, we want to hear what you think about the state of the sport and if football players should be compensated. So far, we’ve heard from a little over a dozen people, and…

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Free Books for KC's Youngest Learners Courtesy of Dolly Parton

Educators with Center School District’s early childhood services spent many hours this summer going door to door in the Marlborough neighborhood to sign children up for free books from country music star Dolly Parton. “After about two hours of walking around the neighborhood, we typically get about 10 people signed up for the Dolly Parton…

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Are You Ready for Some Football?

Tell us what YOU think about the NFL and head trauma.

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Kate Walsh talks with KCPL director Crosby Kemper III at an event at the Plaza Library.

Review of Teaching Programs Remains Controversial

Lindsey Foat | KCPT News A study published in June labeled teacher education programs at colleges and universities across the country an “industry of mediocrity.” Only four out of the 1200 elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs included in the Teacher Prep Review received top ratings. Kate Walsh is one of the authors of the study…

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Future of Human Health May Rest in the Paws of our Animal Brethren

The 2013 Animal Health Research Symposium on August 26, 2013 explored how veterinary and human health researchers may find new cures and treatments through collaboration.

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