KC-area students explore government work

student at johnson county mental health center booth

More than 3,000 students from Kansas City-area middle schools and high schools got a glimpse of public service careers during the first-ever CORE4 Youth Career Expo held Tuesday at Bartle Hall. The students came from roughly four dozen schools. Hosting the event were the metropolitan area’s four core local governments — the city of Kansas City, Mo.;…

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Finding solutions for the student-transfer problem

Catina Taylor talks with Aditya Voleti at a meeting

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…

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Blue Springs educator named tops in Missouri

Linda Glasgow was named Missouri Teacher of the Year for 2015-16. Glasgow teaches third grade at John Nowlin Elementary School in Blue Springs. (Credit: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education)

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.

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Three questions with Disney historian Steven Watts

University of Missouri professor and author of "The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life," Steven Watts

University of Missouri professor and author of “The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life,” Steven Watts is one of a handful of featured historians in American Experience’s four-hour epic documentary on Walt Disney, which will air in two parts beginning 8pm tonight on KCPT. “American Experience: Walt Disney,” is Watts second…

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Grandview superintendent to retire

Empty school classroom

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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