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…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (498+ words) Danielle Allen once asked her night students at the University of Chicago had they ever read, really read the Declaration of Independence. Now a political philosopher at Harvard, she has written several books on democracy, and her book, “Our Declaration:…...

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, 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, 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…...