Missouri Woman Uses Experience to Advocate for the Deaf
The deaf community has its own language, culture and set of obstacles, and most hearing people will never interact with it. But Dr. Stephanie Logan was thrust into the deaf community when she lost her...
View ArticleUnder the Microscope - Library Gives Children Hands-On Experience with Circuits
The circuit science workshop in Columbia is one of Daniel Boone Regional Library’s most popular regular events for kids. The workshop allows elementary school-aged children to play with Snap Circuits,...
View ArticleMO Governor Touts Higher Education Accomplishments During Springfield Stop
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, in one of his first stops since delivering the State of the State Address on Wednesday, talked about efforts to keep tuition affordable. During the press conference at...
View ArticleMissouri Legislature Asked to Consider Changes to Bright Flight Scholarship
An advocacy group is pushing the Missouri Legislature to reconsider how it awards scholarships for a 30-year-old program designed to keep the brightest college students in the state. The St. Louis...
View ArticlePaul Pepper: Vera Massey, Nutrition and Health Education Specialist,...
Today Paul Pepper and VERA MASSEY, Health Educator/Consultant, talk about ways to de-stress. Has feeling stressed become the norm? Is it getting in the way of living life? If so, turning things around...
View ArticleExam - Proposed Bill to Change How Students Repay Loans
In late January, Missouri House Rep. Kip Kendrick filed his first bill of this year’s state legislative session. Kendrick’s bill, the Student Debt Relief Act, would give Missouri college graduates the...
View ArticlePrivate School and Study Abroad Students to be Eligible for A+ Scholarship...
Missouri students in private schools would be eligible for the state's A+ Scholarship under a bill advancing in the Legislature.
View ArticleOpen Enrollment Boosts Summer School Attendance
Jefferson City Public Schools made the decision this year to allow open enrollment for summer school to all preschool through eighth-grade students in the Jefferson City area. Last year only students...
View ArticleMissouri Bulks Up Money Available in College Scholarship
Missouri college students this year could get more money from a need-based scholarship from the state. Gov. Jay Nixon during a visit to Missouri Southern State University in Joplin on Friday announced...
View ArticleWestminster College Lecturer Explains How The Bond Between Religion and...
In the wake of the Trump administration’s limitations on refugees, immigrants and green-card holders from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the United States, yesterday a lecturer at Westminster...
View ArticleTraining Program Seeks to Foster Parent-Teacher Relations
Even though parents don’t interact with teachers on a daily basis like their students, an MU study shows that the relationship could be vital. The study shows that relationships between parents and...
View ArticleBarnes and Noble Education Buys MBS Textbook Exchange
In a news release yesterday, Barnes and Noble Education announced it is purchasing local textbook distribution company MBS Textbook Exchange for $174.2 million. MBS, which started as the Missouri Store...
View ArticleNew Report Shows Integral Role of Libraries in STEM Education
The American Library Association (ALA) released their 2017 report Monday on the state of libraries in the United States. The report highlighted national trends for library programming and focused on...
View ArticleMissouri Senate Budget Leader Wants to Put a Break on Budget Plans
Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Dan Brown said yesterday that he wants to put a break on House plans to provide K-12 schools the full amount of basic aid called for under state law....
View ArticlePre-K Funding Could Expand Under Missouri Budget Proposal
Increased funding for public education is expected to be a boon to early childhood programs in Missouri . Extra money is available because Republican lawmakers passed a bill to fully fund the school...
View ArticleChancellor Envisions Community-Centered Future for Mizzou
University of Missouri Chancellor Alexander Cartwright held an event on Wednesday with members of the press to discuss his vision for the future. He addressed questions regarding the public perception...
View ArticleThird Greitens' Appointee to Board of Education Withdraws
A third person appointed by Gov. Eric Greitens to the state board of education won't serve on the board. Two current board members criticized the governor after Springfield resident Heidi Crane's...
View ArticleNew Cedar Ridge Elementary School Opens its Doors
Second-grade teacher Susan Heath gives a tour of Cedar Ridge Elementary School on Tuesday. The new school can hold 600-650 students. The hallways of Cedar Ridge Elementary School were relatively quiet...
View ArticlePlaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education Honored
Springfield, Missouri, is celebrating a man whose civil rights case changed the course of American history. Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Oliver Brown — the lead...
View ArticleMissouri Lawmakers Pass Computer Science, Drug Court Bills
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri lawmakers passed bills during a special session Friday aimed at expanding courts for people struggling with addiction in the state and encouraging high school students to take...
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