Grandview superintendent to retire

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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…

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How opera helped a young singer from Ferguson succeed

Nine Network | PBS As the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death approached, young opera singer Melvin Bozeman reflected on his experience with the police in Ferguson and how the arts drove him to succeed. Bozeman graduated from McCluer North High School in Florissant, Missouri, this past spring. He said he has had negative experiences with…

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Ballet programs look for more boys to step up to the barre

Stacy Nick | NPR A beautiful ballerina and a handsome prince are at the heart of the world’s most famous ballets. Sleeping Beauty. Swan Lake. The Nutcracker, of course. And at training grounds for future dancers, plenty of girls hope to someday wear the prima ballerina’s tutu. But it’s become a challenge to find the boys who…

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Forget the robots, meat processing is still a human’s job

Slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants throughout the country employ a lot of people. About a quarter of a million workers in the U.S. stun, kill and eviscerate the animals we eat. Most of those jobs are physically demanding and require few skills. So why haven’t we started using more robots to cut up our beef? The…

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