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| TJ to spend $12 million on expansion >> Education | rcarlson |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL EXPANDS
JOPLIN - Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School recently announced that the school will break ground in June on a new arts and student life complex ...more |
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| MOCAP unites business and education >> Education | mariwinn |
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Dr. Bruce Speck, president of Missouri Southern State University, describes the university's role in the newly formed Missouri Center for Advance Power Systems Research (MOCAP) while standing in ...more |
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| 2010 Carver scholarship program is announced >> Education | paxton |
| The George Washington Carver Birthplace Association (CBA), in conjunction with the George Washington Carver National Monument, has announced the availability of the 2010 George Washington Carver ...more |
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| Crowder's skidpad is open to teens this spring >> Education | tblack |
| Your son or daughter is a new driver and is coming home from the local grocery store. It's raining. Your child is almost home when the car starts to skid on the wet pavement. Will he or she know how ...more |
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| Crowder paramedic program challenges students >> Education | c-brown |
| Twelve of the 13 Crowder College paramedic students qualified to take the 2009 National Registry Examination scored a pass rate of 91% overwhelmingly topping the national pass rate average of 72%. ...more |
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| Webb City's super accepts state job >> Education | jmorris |
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Ron Lankford, pictured at left, superintendent of the Webb City School District, has been appointed deputy commissioner for fiscal and administrative services, according to an announcement by ...more |
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| Crowder excited over largest grant awarded ever >> Education | c-brown |
| Crowder College recently was the recipient of the single largest appropriation ever received. The Department of Labor on February 12, 2010 awarded the college a grant of $3,576,759.69 for three years ...more |
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| Foreign study is helped by new endowment >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN - The Institute of International Studies at Missouri Southern State University has announced its first endowed award for study abroad. According to Dr. Chad Stebbins, director of the ...more |
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| KidsFirst offers free tutoring >> Education | staff |
| Free team tutoring is available for all Webb City area children in kindergarten through third grade, according to an announcement by Sara Bennett, executive director of the local chapter of ...more |
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| Crowder names Dickey for teaching excellence award >> Education | c-brown |
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J.P. Dickey, pictured left, is the 2009 Crowder College selection for The Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. A theatre and speech instructor since the fall of 2000, Dickey currently ...more |
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| At issue: the future of Crowder College >> Education | mariwinn |
| Creative ways to encourage donor generosity in today's economy was the subject of a discussion of the Crowder College Foundation yesterday at their regularly scheduled meeting on the main campus in ...more |
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| Funding is cut but tuition/fees stay the same >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN - The Missouri Southern State University Board of Governors today unanimously voted to join with other universities and colleges in the state to hold the line on increases in tuition and ...more |
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| Lunch Buddies program seeks volunteers >> Education | staff |
| The Joplin R-8 school system together with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jasper and Newton Counties (BBBSJN) have announced the need for volunteers for their Lunch Buddies mentoring program.
Acting ...more |
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| MSSU student organizes project to save the arts >> Education | staff |
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"Coexist," "I've Got the Beat" and "Monotony" are examples of how art may be used to symbolize words.
Melanie Curti, an art education major from Missouri Southern State University-Joplin, ...more |
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| Crowder commemorates TSAR feat >> Education | c-brown |
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Crowder College's TSAR was the first solar-powered vehicle to complete a trek across the US. The car was built with the ingenuity of Art Boyt, Steve Tipton, Chris Kalmbach, Greg Brockman and Doug ...more |
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| Crowder harvests water run-off >> Education | mariwinn |
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Tammy Holder, Crowder College agriculture division chair, points to a lichen-covered rock that students had brought back from one of their trips. It became part of the RainXchange™ System that is ...more |
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| Crowder to expand its nursing program >> Education | c-brown |
| Crowder College will be expanding its nursing program. Proposed during a meeting of the Missouri State Board of Nursing on June 2, 2009 in Jefferson City, the approval for an associate degree to be ...more |
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| MSSU tightens its belt; drops soccer program >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN - The state of the economy dominates nearly every discussion in every corner of American society at this time, and Missouri Southern State University is no different.
Missouri's new ...more |
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| FSCC implements IPv6 protocol >> Education | kathleen |
| Fort Scott Community College has rolled out a new network service across their six major campuses. All student and public lab machines have full Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) connectivity to ...more |
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| Recognition of Code Talking is revived >> Education | allison8 |
| Reviving the subject of Native American Code Talkers and the role they played in World Wars I and II in a lecture recently was Dr. William C. Meadows, a professor of anthropology at Missouri State ...more |
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| MSSU's newspaper gains national recognition >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN - The Chart, student newspaper of Missouri Southern State University, captured third place in the Best of Show competition at the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers national ...more |
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| College Girls learn self defense tactics >> Education | mesmith |
| Vulnerability, strength and force can turn women into fighters. Female Missouri State students learned self defense tactics recently after Erin Weed, 30, of Chicago, founder of the organization Girls ...more |
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| Community chorus revived by new Crowder instructor >> Education | c-brown |
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There is a new voice at Crowder College this year. Dr. Kierstin Bible, pictured at right, has joined the staff as choral music instructor and already has made her presence felt to students and ...more |
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| Crowder gets a name change >> Education | hfoster |
| Neosho's Crowder College is no longer designated a "junior college" because of legislation introduced by Rep. Kevin Wilson. House Bill 1869, signed by Gov. Matt Blunt today at Crowder, requires the ...more |
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| Missouri professionals encouraged to teach >> Education | staff |
| The Missouri National Educational Association unsuccessfully stopped a bill that provides experienced professionals an alternate route to second careers as secondary school teachers, and, according ...more |
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| P.J. O'Rourke speaks at TJ commencement >> Education | mariwinn |
| Some people might say that anyone with enough self-confidence to wear a pink tie could rule the world. That observation might get a laugh without too much forethought. It is said that something in a ...more |
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| MoDOT's poster contest winners are announced >> Education | staff |
| Jennifer Nguyen, a fourth grade student at Eastmorland Elementary School in Joplin, won a second place award for her poster, pictured at left, that was entered in the Missouri Department of ...more |
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| Breaking the stereotype of business education >> Education | s-smith |
| Members of Missouri Southern State University's Robert W. Plaster School of Business are learning that it's not all about making money. A Threads of Hope social responsibility project co-ordinated by ...more |
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| WTI Joplin receives award >> Education | cskaff |
| WTI Joplin has been recognized as a 2006-2007 School of Distinction by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT). In a certificate awarded recently to WTI ...more |
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| Crowder instructor shares his expertise in Mexico >> Education | c-brown |
| Mike Jefferson, a member of Crowder College’s Environmental Resource Center, has returned from the south central highlands of Mexico where he led a three person environmental training task ...more |
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| Books offered enhance homeschool curricula >> Education | admin2 |
| Several books currently are available to help educate youngsters. One deals with learning about diesel engines and protecting the environment, another with the link between eliminating errors and the ...more |
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| What opting out should mean >> Education | admin2 |
| So-called “student directory information,” which includes things such as name, age and extracurricular activities, may be made publicly available under the Family Educational Rights and ...more |
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| Dr. Julio S. León announces his retirement >> Education | s-smith |
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JOPLIN - After serving 25 years as only the third President of Missouri Southern State University, Dr. Julio S. León, pictured, announced his retirement today (Friday, Aug. 17, 2007).
"I ...more |
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| McCaleb Initiative for Peace expands donations >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN - Three student-faculty projects have been approved for grants from the McCaleb Initiative for Peace project at Missouri Southern State University.
In 1998, Kenneth and Margaret McCaleb of ...more |
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| Cindy Sheehan joins Drury panel discussion >> Education | mariwinn |
| All of the panelists participating in Drury University's convocation series on the topic of "Democracy and Dissent" on April 26, 2007 would have invited the dozen or so war supporters, waving their ...more |
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| Campus safety: the new reality >> Education | mariwinn |
| Stress, change and unpredictability are a apart of college life. Usually, that is a good thing. It is a time when students mature spiritually, intellectually and socially. But sometimes the ...more |
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| Alternative school turns trash into treasure >> Education | admin2 |
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Making paper at the Greenhouse School in Salem, MA is a hands-on job.
Amid the swarm of new ideas meant to capture the public's imagination in combatting global warming, kids, staff and parents ...more |
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| Crowder College presidency stays in-house >> Education | mariwinn |
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Myrna Marble stood amidst applause as the announcement of her son Alan as next Crowder College president was made. The in-house selection seemed to pleasantly surprise some of those assembled ...more |
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| Creating a nation of sheep >> Education | admin2 |
| "Putting Higher Ed Out of Reach," a provocative article by Howard Karger about Margaret Spellings, President Bush's secretary of education, has appeared in the February 20th issue of Harper's Weekly. ...more |
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| Old newspapers: holding history in your hands >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN - Several students at Missouri Southern State University have held history in their hands over the last semester, thanks to a large collection of historic newspapers owned by Joplin history ...more |
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| Scholarship memorializes Barry County deputy >> Education | s-smith |
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DEPUTY CHRISTOPHER LEE CASTETTER
JOPLIN - The scope of the Christopher Lee Castetter Memorial Scholarship benefiting a criminal justice student at Missouri Southern State University has changed. ...more |
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| MoDOT conducts safety seminar >> Education | mariwinn |
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In an effort to help promote wreck less driving, Laszlo T. Laky, a public safety representative from Sitton Motor Lines, Inc., conducted a No-Zone demonstration. No-Zones are areas around trucks ...more |
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| Information for dealing with major storms >> Education | ma-earth |
| Websites devoted to providing links to information dealing with problems faced after a major storm have been set up by branches of the University of Missouri Extension. Topics run the gamut from ...more |
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| Pro Musica performance inspires JHS students >> Education | mariwinn |
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Several hundred students were present. Their complete attention was focused on the Joplin High School auditorium stage. Besides the music playing and the brief remarks about it from cellist Daniel ...more |
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| Will virtual school encroach upon homeschool? >> Education | e-emery |
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Virtual learningWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?--James Madison
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| Researcher defines river rehabilitation >> Education | clr313 |
| Dr. Robert Jacobson watches over the Missouri River
Big rivers like the Missouri River cannot be restored but simply rehabilitated. That's the opinion of Dr. Robert Jacobson, a research ...more |
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| Hemenway's views on the evolution controversy >> Education | sltimme |
| Bob Hemenway, Chancellor at the University of Kansas, composed this message that he passed along to ...more |
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| MSSU gets crime-fighting tool >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN (SNS) - The Criminal Justice Department at Missouri Southern State University recently purchased a LogiCube MD5 to enhance its Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) program.The MD5 is used by the ...more |
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| College--not always the next step for some >> Education | tallen |
| "I think everybody finds a different way around the barn to the pasture," said Mark Biggs, associate professor of media, journalism and film at Southwest Missouri State University. He was referring ...more |
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| Crowder College to add paramedic program >> Education | l-marble |
| The Board of Trustees of Crowder College unanimously have approved the addition of a paramedic science program to their curricula. An intensive 27-week certificate program (three 9-week courses) ...more |
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| Learning begins at birth >> Education | mariwinn |
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With two Dr. Seuss children's books in tow, Missouri Senator Kit Bond came to the Parents as Teachers (PAT) center in Neosho today to entertain a group of toddlers and as part of a statewide ...more |
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| Acquaintance rape becomes serious issue on campus >> Education | mariwinn |
| A group of young students, timidly hunkered down in the back of Taylor Auditorium on the campus of Missouri Southern State University- Joplin, were encouraged to move forward. Mostly freshmen, they ...more |
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| Begin 4-yr. teaching program at Crowder >> Education | l-marble |
| Crowder College recently signed an exciting teacher-education program articulation agreement with Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), Ozarks Technical College, and SMSU at West Plains, ...more |
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| Russian theatre and philosophy of life >> Education | mariwinn |
| Constantin Stanislavsky might not be a household name in Joplin but to all those interested in theatre it represents a man who earned international acclaim as an actor, director and coach.
Stanley ...more |
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| Crowder opens literacy center >> Education | l-marble |
| Crowder College Even Start/AEL was awarded a special literacy grant to covert a former Even Start facility to a community literacy center. Although the grant also funds salaries for adult literacy ...more |
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| Burton reminisces about one-room schools >> Education | mariwinn |
| Today's air-conditioned schools are palaces compared to the one-room schools that once beckoned area students in the fall
Generations of Missourians, as those of many other states, who were ...more |
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| Grant money is excuse for latest scam >> Education | mariwinn |
| The best advice is not to give out any unsolicited information over the phone or internet, especially numbers relating to credit cards, bank accounts or social security.
The latest scam involves a ...more |
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| ALEC analyzes No Child Left Behind >> Education | e-emery |
| To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our ...more |
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| Are kids taught to think? >> Education | ggruber |
| Kids and Teachers and Schools
by Gary R. Gruber, Ph.D.
When schools began to be compulsory, the model following the Industrial Revolution was to make little workers of the students. They were to ...more |
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| Intelligent Design vs. science >> Education | mariwinn |
| MSSU's Black speaks out
No point of view should be stifled, according to Dr. Bill Black, assistant professor in the biology department of Missouri Southern State University and an instructor ...more |
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| Crowder's skidpad will prove invaluable >> Education | mariwinn |
| Speed can kill. Consider the driver gunning the engine to get up a steep wet hill but instead hydroplaning into a tree. Or, visualize another with pedal to the metal tearing along in the outside lane ...more |
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| Electronic age kids can't read >> Education | mariwinn |
| A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that young children, under the age of 6 spend as much or more time before a television or computer screen than they do playing outside and more ...more |
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| Bioinformatics degree now offered by MSSU >> Education | s-smith |
| JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - Missouri Southern State University now offers an undergraduate degree in Bioinformatics, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research area defined as the interface between ...more |
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| What's your tornado IQ? >> Education | mariwinn |
| Here's a little twister test supplied by the Southwest Region News Service of the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension:
True or false: Areas near rivers, lakes and mountains are safe ...more |
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| Aint me writin gud enuf? >> Education | anna |
| Is another bureaucracy poised to answer the question?
Too many American students struggle to put together a coherent sentence, much less prose. The 1998 National Assessment of Educational ...more |
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