Education
Leveling the technology playing field
It’s never fun to get a poor report card, but it’s even worse when the bad marks are due to circumstances beyond your control. That’s the way Superintendent Dennis Carpenter felt when the organization he leads, the Hickman Mills School District, fared badly on its most recent annual performance report from the Missouri Department of…
KC-area students explore government work
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.;…
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.
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 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…
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…
First Day: Kindergarten in KC
Every year with the start of school, something huge happens for the kids in our communities: They start school, many of them for the first time. With funding issues, budget cuts, provisional accreditation, and superintendent changes in the news, sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of that big thing right in our midst: the wondrous,…
Superintendent carousel turns as students return to class
The start of school typically brings with it a crop of new students and staffers.
Yet classes are resuming this year in the Kansas City area amidst a remarkable run of new superintendents in Missouri-side school districts, according to the Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City, a consortium that stretches across several counties and represents more than 185,000 students.
MIDTOWN KC CHARTER WINS APPROVAL FROM STATE PANEL
A band of Midtown Kansas City parents is close to realizing their dream of creating a diverse, high-performing school district aimed at serving young families that might otherwise leave the city for better education options in the suburbs. The Missouri Charter Public School Commission this morning approved a plan put forth by the nonprofit Citizens of…
Hands-on history: simulating the end of WWII at the Truman Museum
The highlight of Joe Henke’s summers are his visits to the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Henke is a world history and honors government teacher from Boonville, Missouri and has participated in the museum’s weeklong Summer Teacher Institute for the last seven years. This year on the eve of the 70th Anniversary of the…