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

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

Will Rogers would joke that his ancestors didn’t come to America on the Mayflower but they “met the boat,” a wry reference to his family heritage. The...

Kansas City civil rights activist Alvin Sykes first encountered former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn in 2007, when Coburn...

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

The Library launches a new series, Real/Modern: KC, that takes a humorous, opinionated, intimate, and informative look at the mode...

Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek puts the value of quality teaching in stark economic terms. Place even a slightly above-averag...

As underscored by The Huffington Post six months ago, when it named Kansas City one of America’s “coolest” cities, things are looking brig...

Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage. An emeritus professor of behavioral eco...