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One St. Louis charter school to close, another in trouble
St. Louis Post-DispatchOne charter school announced Friday it will close. Another is fighting to stay open. One year after the Missouri Board of Education voted to shutter the six Imagine charter schools for academic failure, the city faces losing two charter schools for very...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Education, Colleges and Universities, Public Schools
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Friday finishes second at Pac-12 Championships
The Bellingham HeraldOregon's Becca Friday (Bellingham) finished second in the women's 1,500 meters on Sunday, May 12, at the Pacific-12 Conference Track and Field Championships in Los Angeles. Friday's time of 4 minutes, 14.99 seconds was just one tenth of a second...Tags: College Football, Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Seattle Mariners, College Sports
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Future heads of family farms dig into financials
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Jake Anderson didn't have to delve too deep into the University of Missouri's agricultural economics program before realizing he was destined to return to the 1,500-acre family farm. After all, that's been the Anderson family trade...Tags: Small Businesses, Students, Education, Teaching and Learning, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ask adult patients about alcohol misuse: panel
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Primary care doctors should ask adults how much and how often they drink alcohol and counsel those with risky and dangerous drinking habits, a government-backed panel said today. Based on a review of studies conducted since...Tags: Substance Abuse, Drugs and Medicines, American Academy of Pediatrics, Medical Specialization, Behavioral Conditions
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Biotech industry celebrates Monsanto's Supreme Court victory
St. Louis Post-DispatchVernon Hugh Bowman, a 75-year-old farmer from southwestern Indiana, thought he had figured out a cheap and legal way to use Monsanto's genetically engineered soybeans. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled -- unanimously -- he had not. The court...Tags: Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Microsoft Corporation
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OPINION: 'Civil rights babies' moved forward without a map
The Kansas City StarBlack children of the 1950s and 1960s are "babies of the civil rights movement," according to Judge Lisa White Hardwick. Each of us was profoundly influenced by the struggles and sacrifices of people like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and must own the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Martin Luther King Jr.
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William and Mary's Tutwiler survives 'miracle' ordeal and recovery
WILLIAMSBURG — As Josh Tutwiler plummeted through the fall Missouri air, the sheer rock face racing past and the ledge from which he fell rapidly receding, he felt his conscious mind split in two. On one side, memories and experiences zipped...
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Use of ADHD drugs as a study aid raises concern on campuses
The Kansas City StarA University of Kansas freshman took a break from shooting hoops with friends outside his dormitory to talk about what some students call "study pills." As final exams approached last semester, he took a couple doses of a prescribed stimulant called...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Public Finance, Students, Bipolar Disorder, College Basketball
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Missouri professor becomes a Las Vegas scholar
The Kansas City StarLas Vegas cab drivers know what their riders want. Larry Gragg discovered that during one of his many trips to Vegas from his campus at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. "He said, 'Sir, you are the only person who ever has...Tags: Science and Technology, Literature, Culture, Book, Awards and Prizes
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MU introduces St. Louis native Shannon Welker as new gymnastics coach
The Kansas City StarIf every college coach has a dream job, there was never any doubt about the position that fell into that category for St. Louis native Shannon Welker. "I've been waiting for Mizzou to open for as long as I've been in college gymnastics," said Welker,...Tags: Gymnastics, Florida Gators, Southeastern Conference, Colleges and Universities, College Sports
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Longtime Lindbergh School District teacher and administrator dies
St. Louis Post-DispatchGene Engelhardt, who died this week at age 89, was a teacher and teacher administrator in the Lindbergh School District for 62 years. He began his careeer at 18 as a teacher in a one-room rural school in Butler County in southeast Missouri. He joined...Tags: Southeast Missouri State University , Teachers, Students, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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FAMU names Sylvester Young as new marching band director
Sylvester Young, a former music professor at Ohio University, has been selected as FAMU's new marching band director. Officials at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee announced early last month that they were interviewing two people for the job of...
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