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Educator Susan Blow, credited with founding the first successful kindergarten program in the US was born on this date in Carondelet. 

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Although many accounts of James Milton Turner’s life give his birth date as May 16, 1840, he recorded in 1871 that he was born on August 22, 1839. Either way, he was born in St. Louis County. In 1843, after he and his mother were freed, Turner was educated in secretly run schools in the …

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Missouri History Today December 12, 1938: Supreme Court Secures In-State Education For Black Students

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Furthering your nursing career can be rewarding for your professional life and well-being. It helps open new job opportunities, leadership, and specialization roles for you. Advancing your nursing career increases your earning potential and creates better compensation opportunities. It also helps beat job dissatisfaction and burnout, especially if you aren’t happy in your current role. Advancing your nursing career is the best way to climb the professional ladder while helping you gain more knowledge and skills and preventing career stagnation.

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Warrensburg residents learned they had reason to be excited on this day more than 152 years ago. The reason? Their burg was selected as the location for a new teachers’ college in the Show-Me state. In 1919, the name was changed to Central Missouri State Teachers College. It was changed again in 1945, to Central …

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Some Missouri students are enjoying hands-on lessons in sustainability through a program called Missouri Green Schools. Children are excited to learn about composting, recycling, gardening, and other activities that have healthy benefits.

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Our columnist notes that 3,000 teaching positions were left vacant or filled by someone not qualified. He takes a humorous look back to his own school days and wonders what makes a teacher unqualified?

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Downtown Kansas City is hosting its very own Teacher Appreciation Week from August 22-26, 2022.

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Virtual events, ways to give back, and food and drink options all around the state.