Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
YEARS OF RACISM AND SCANDAL HAS CREATED UNCERTAIN FUTURE, By Wayne Hodges

“We’ve shown we can build schools and close schools. What we haven’t done is demonstrate we can educate kids.” – Eugene Eubanks, Desegregation Plan Committee Member
KANSAS CITY, Mo – On Sunday, June 6, Rick Montgomery of the Kansas City Star wrote an interesting [...]

CLOCK IS TICKING ON 100,000 TEACHERS’ JOBS, by Nick Anderson of Washington Post
WASHINGTON – Senior congressional Democrats and the Obama administration scrambled Wednesday to line up support for $23 billion in federal aid to avert an estimated 100,000 or more school layoffs in a brutal year for education budgets coast to coast. As early as [...]

Crystal Booker, Film Critic Magic 107.3
NEW DIRECTION OF KC SCHOOLS HAS EVERYBODY ON EDGE, MassAppealNews.com
KANSAS CITY – The landscape of education within the Kansas City Metropolitan Area is experiencing a major shakeup as Superintendent John Covington and school board members have elected to close an unprecedented 29 out of 61 schools. It should be noted; [...]

Jeneé Osterheldt of the Kansas City Star reflects on career, MassAppealNews.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo – If you have a taste for topics associated with the joys of living, the FYI column inside the Kansas City Star is where it’s at. Recently, Star columnist Jeneé Osterheldt took time to discuss her exciting career in journalism [...]

UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF TEEN DEPRESSION IS KEY (The Family Foundation School)
The teen years are typically a time of change and self-discovery, rebellion and self-reliance, increased social expectation and peer pressure, and the development of a new identity. From the ages of 12 to 18, children are expected to push limits and experiment with new [...]

KATIE EXCELS AS FIRST BLACK VALEDICTORIAN AT NOTRE DAME, Wired from WBBM
SOUTH BEND, Ind – History is being made at the University of Notre Dame this spring. In the 161 years the University of Notre Dame has been awarding degrees, never had there been an African-American as valedictorian.  Until this year. She’s Katie Washington of [...]

EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
YOUTH NEED INFUSION OF PARENTAL LOVE NOT MORE VENUES, by Wayne Hodges

KANSAS CITY, Mo – The official tally is in: Kansas City Youth 1, Adults without common sense 0. Please excuse me if I appear a bit sarcastic. It’s just that I find  it appalling the fine youth of our community were [...]

Mara Gay, Contributor
POLICE BEATING OF MARYLAND STUDENT CAUGHT ON VIDEO, by Mara Gay
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – Without the video, this might have been a classic case of “he said, she said.” But there is a video. And so the case against two University of Maryland students accused of attacking police after a basketball game last [...]

EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
KC SCHOOL DISTRICT DRAWS MAJOR HEAT FOR SCHOOL CLOSINGS, by Wayne Hodges

KANSAS CITY, Mo – A couple weeks ago, the Kansas City School Board voted 5-4 to shut down an unprecedented 29 out of 61 schools in an effort to erase a $50 million budget deficit. “The bottom line is the quality [...]

SHOULD TEACHER’S SALARIES BE TIED TO STUDENT PERFORMANCE? by Dorie Turner (AP)
ATLANTA – For parents and politicians hungry for better schools, the idea of paying teachers more if their students perform better can seem as basic as adding two and two or spelling “cat.” Yet just a handful of schools and districts around the country [...]