adult education

Local nonprofit Great Jobs KC offers college scholarships to high school students and adults from the Kansas City area. Over two-thirds of the scholarships go to students of color.

Kansas City native and former Seattle SuperSonics basketball player Dean Tolson made it to college without learning to read. Now, he holds an advanced degree, and is advocating for education with a new memoir, "Power Forward."

Bradford pear trees — an invasive species that chokes out native plants — are blooming all across Kansas and Missouri right now, so it’s the perfect time for biologists to track them down and kill them. Plus, why a Missouri prison is training incarcerated men in computer programming.

Working adults in Kansas can now obtain their high-school diplomas online.

Now that adult coronavirus vaccinations are rising, America turns its focus to the children and it's never too late to get your high school diploma according to a new Kansas program.

Segment 1: Heavy caseloads and long hours are taking a toll on Missouri's public defenders.Officials say public defenders in Kansas City, Missouri, are…

Learning to play an instrument as an adult can be difficult, especially when many beginner level classes are geared toward kids. However, a Kansas City…

The Kansas City area is home to three agencies that work with the federal government to resettle people displaced from their home countries by war,…

Segment 1: The cost of higher education has shot up faster than family income in recent decades.Economists and education experts suggest students think…

When Paloma Ramos dropped out of school in 2014, she was already a year behind her classmates at Southwest Early College Campus.Ramos had a plan, though.…

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens made a rare stop in Kansas City Wednesday to sign four bills into law.One measure would start the process of creating four…

National Literacy Month might have you thinking about your favorite stories on the printed page, but for 32 million adults in the United States, that page…