Posts Tagged ‘Education’
The Learning Curve: Ervin Early Learning Center
The Hickman Mills School District had a problem: Low-income kindergartners were arriving without the basics they needed to start school on the right foot. Solution? Revamp a dilapidated middle school building and provide high-quality, full day pre-K programming to every child in the district, free of charge. The first of four phases kicked off in February of…
Read MoreThe Learning Curve: Career Tech Education
In 2013, the PBS Newshour added Paseo Academy to its national roster of schools participating in the Student Reporting Labs project. Designed to increase teens’ understanding of today’s media landscape, the partnership also helps journalism students develop content which can be utilized for broadcast as part of the Kansas City Missouri School District’s Career Tech Education program.…
Read MoreServing KC’s Homeless Students
All public schools in the U.S. are required by federal law to designate a liaison for homeless students. The McKinney-Vento Act, passed in 1987, spells out what schools are required to provide students in order to minimize barriers to education created by homelessness. Under the act, the definition of “homeless” is rather broad, and can…
Read More1 year after GED changes: Kansas students lost in shuffle
The number of people who passed the GED exam in Kansas last year is the lowest it’s been in decades. And adult education centers, which for years have helped ensure that students are ready for the test, have been cut out of the process.
Read MoreShow Me | The Lean Lab
In Pursuit of Transformation When Katie Boody and Carrie Markel looked at Kansas City, they saw a city that was bursting with entrepreneurship and the arts, but lacking in education. Now they’re trying to fix that with an education-focused incubator called The Lean Lab. The Lab is the subject of a new KCPT digital series,…
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