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For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...

Education reform comes fraught with questions. How do we distinguish between exciting, new ideas and costly, ineffective fads? Where can policymakers...

The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...

When The Kansas City Star profiled the 10 greatest departed heroes in the city’s history earlier this year, it started – naturally – with Ewi...

Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...

Opening a five-day series of Urban Grown events—culminating in the...

Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...