3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (709+ words) Missouri students are back in class, but for a growing number of them, school does not look the same as it did a decade ago. Some attend school four days a week instead of five. Some do not go to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (663+ words) Bus routes relearned, carpools reassembled and after-school pickups negotiated. A small infrastructure takes shape around each child, much of it reliant on the child’s home address and particular school. For some families and teachers, preparations are even more painstaking. A…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (399+ words) “By the time we get ‘em, there’s already a lot of work to do,” I remember a Kansas City Public Schools teacher telling me. She was talking about something that another early education professional who runs remedial reading programs would…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (869+ words) While the world mourns the loss of the great Dolly Parton and celebrates her life and decades of philanthropy, Missouri has cut the program that was her legacy to thousands of the state’s vulnerable children. Embarrassing! Stories emerged from parents…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (650+ words) In what has become an annual event reflective of enablement and condescension, local school districts recently held school supply giveaway days, well-covered by local media and exploited for attention by suburbanites. A second viable option is for community members to…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1012+ words) With all the conversation and concern about our young people spending too much time staring at screens, I’m a bit perplexed that schools anywhere would add to the situation by putting students in front of teachers — on screens. But it…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1105+ words) Recently, I was called on to interview Amy Goodman of Democracy Now fame. And when we met, the first thing she wanted to know was whether I knew former Kansas City Star columnist Lewis Diuguid. I was there to meet…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (15+ words) (Video) Kansas City Star...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (323+ words) In early 2016, I began working at a Head Start program in Wyandotte County. I’d been an early childhood educator for more than a dozen years, but until then had only worked in for-profit childcare in middle- to upper-income communities. I…...