As most Columbia residents have heard by now, IBM is planning to move to Columbia. This is big news for most people in the city. It is expected to bring new jobs, new salaries, new diversity of businesses. It could also mean new revenue for the Columbia Public Schools. Here is an article I wrote [...]
Archive for May, 2010
CPS <3 IBM??
Posted in Announcements, Discussion, Missouri, National, Superintendent, Uncategorized, tagged Columbia, IBM, tax revenue on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Summer
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear loyal readers, This is Molly, your friendly Missourian education assistant city editor and editor of this blog. Due to the summer intersession, there will be fewer posts on this blog for a while. I hope that we will occasionally be able to update, but it won’t be with regularity. Thanks!
What ever happened to just getting detention?
Posted in Discussion, Elementary Schools, High Schools, Junior High, Middle Schools, Missouri, National, Uncategorized on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Growing up in a Catholic family, I had always heard horror stories about how nuns used to slap my parents knuckles with a ruler when they were in trouble. The idea that physical abuse was still being used as punishment in schools never even crossed my mind. Surely its not legal, I thought. An article [...]
Columbia Public School students travel to Washington D.C.
Posted in Awards, Junior High, Middle Schools, Missouri, National, Uncategorized on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It may be finals week here at Univ. of Missouri, but there is news from the Columbia Public Schools web site that I want to put up. These guys are headed to Washington D.C. in June – one for recognition as a Presidential Scholar, and two will compete in the National History Day Competition. ROCK [...]
Recession straining public preschool programs
Posted in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Schools, National, tagged early childhood education, Elementary Schools, New York Times on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Growing up in Oklahoma, I heard reports of surveys ranking the state near the bottom in school expenditures. The implication was clear – the small budget allocated to education showed the state didn’t place much priority on that sector. Seems like there has been a change of thinking, with Oklahoma’s state government responding to a [...]
