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Missouri school students will sit down for state assessments soon. For some, it’ll be their first time in a classroom in more than a year. Teachers and parents say testing should be canceled, but education officials counter the data is critical.

Remote P.E. has forced gym teachers to re-think fitness for their students. But can they help stir-crazy adults?

Remote P.E. has forced gym teachers to re-think fitness for their students. But can they help stir-crazy adults?

The district's board of education voted to end the use of mascots like Indians and Braves because they are racially insensitive. Shawnee Mission North has used their current mascot, which will have to be changed, for 98 years.

Faculty worry that giving students three-day weekends or other times away from class will encourage them to party or travel — and become superspreaders of the coronavirus.

Teachers are struggling with how to carry on both online and in-person classes at the same time.

College students reflect on how COVID-19 has changed campus life during one of the loneliest semesters ever.

Kansas is remaking its tactic for making kids into readers, and emphasizing screening to catch those who fall behind.

The coronavirus made schools adapt to kids learning from home. And that's made the need to shut down schooling for bad weather a bit on an anachronism.

Police brutality and protests garnered the attention and sympathy of white Kansas Citians, but 2020 has not brought the systemic change activists say are needed to improve race relations in the metro.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Ryan Delaney is in Germany this month to report on how that country handles keeping its schools open.

The strain of teaching online, with far bigger classes than public schools are accustomed to handling through virtual sessions, is breeding classroom fatigue.