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I became involved in the civil rights movement more than 40 years ago when it was easy to identify the “enemy.” It was George Wallace and people who thought and acted like him. As time progressed, we have made great strides, or at least I would like to believe we have.
The University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Education is addressing the current Pre-K-12 urban public education crisis in the Kansas City area through its Institute for Urban Education. To date, the institute is far surpassing initial expectations. Since 2005, the institute has partnered with the Kansas City, Kansas City, Kan. and Hickman Mills school districts to provide trained educators to teach in the partners’ schools.
Alaska has its “bridge to nowhere.” Kansas City has its own “bicycle lane to nowhere.”
Repealing bailouts, stimulus spending and Soviet-like takeovers of private industries will happen only when the people decide they no longer believe the president’s costly, unattainable promises.
In March, Jason Wren, a 19-year-old KU student, died of alcohol poisoning, according to the autopsy report. Wren died after reportedly drinking several pitchers of margaritas and later beer and whiskey. The untimely demise of Wren re-awakens a national debate in this area that began in earnest over a year ago with the Amethyst Initiative.
If your blood test comes back with bad results, do you address the problems — or do you blame the doctor who interprets the test? The U.S. Department of Education recently released the latest long-term results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The report had some good news. For example, the reading and mathematics scores for 9- and 13-year-olds were higher in 2008 than they were in the early 1970s.
Ramp meters are new to the Kansas City region, but in other parts of the country they have been proven effective in reducing the side-swipe and rear-end accidents that often occur in merge areas of the interstate.
What an incredible ride it has been for me in my quest for the spelling bee championship! I have been participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2006. I went from 10th to 8th to 4th place, and then I was finally able to take the much coveted trophy in 2009. I loved going to Washington, D.C., each year during the Memorial Day week! Bee Week has always been so much fun for me because I got to meet the contestants and socialize.
Politics this century has too often been about differentiating and alienating. President Barack Hussein Obama took a different approach toward resetting America’s relationship with Arabs and Muslims. He has defined his politics as being about inclusion and cooperation. I witnessed how his message was received in the Arab Republic of Egypt in Al-Arish, a small coastal town in the Sinai Peninsula. From the beachfront to the business district everyone was watching or listening to Obama’s address on June 4. Universities, schools and government offices all closed to welcome the U.S. president.
During his recent visit to the White House, unlike President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI during his courageous visit to the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to support a two-state solution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. On Nov. 29, 1947, by a vote of 33 to 13, the U.N. General Assembly passed the Partition Resolution, dividing the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, one a Jewish state and the other a Palestinian state. Jerusalem was to have been an international city.
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