Tag: Education
Business Is Brisk For KU’s Famed Hate Crime Hoax Detector
Laird Wilcox, arguably the nation’s foremost hate crime hoax detector, was back in the news. The hoax du jour unfolded–and…
Big Potential for Cost Savings at Kansas Universities
An analysis of staffing levels prepared by Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) shows the University of Kansas appears to be far…
KU Could Be on The Hook for Millions If Football Coaches Are Fired
There is something about losing five straight football games and giving up an average of more than 50 points a…
Adidas Scandal May Have Left its Footprint on KU
A trio of reporters at KU’s Daily Kansan–Conner Mitchell, Sean Collins and Wesley Dotson–are getting some deserved national attention for…
Monday at Plaza Library: “Russell Kirk, Charity, and the Conservative Imagination”
The Kansas City Public Library is one of the rare public institutions in America–and perhaps the only one in the…
New School Super: “Kansas Really Supports Their Educators”
Angela Holloway-Payne, who left her native Memphis for a job as a school superintendent in Kansas, told the Hutchinson News…
Lawrence High Grooms Fresh Snowflakes For Future Campus Meltdowns
On Monday as many as 100 students at Lawrence High staged something of a sit-down strike to protest “disrespectful” comments…
Shocker: Star Runs Fair and Balanced Article on Campus Carry
In an unusual burst of objective journalism, the Kansas City Star ran a featured article on Sunday that allowed a…
Snowflake Advisory: MU Commits to Protect “Deeply Offensive” Speech
A snowflake advisory has been posted for all four campuses in the MU system–the university has pledged to protect speech…
CNN Reports on Armed Serial Rapist at KU, KSU
According to CNN, a rapist who stalked college students in their off-campus housing at the University of Kansas and Kanas…
Star: “Gender-Inclusive Housing” Expands at UMKC, KU–Whatever That Means
In an age of shifting definitions readers find themselves puzzling over the meaning of headlines like this one from the…
Wichita Teachers Union Prez Sues Project Veritas, But Why?
Steve Wentz, president of United Teachers of Wichita, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court’s Middle District of Florida against…
Liberty Teen Kills Friend While High on Mushrooms
Just when that libertarian urge to decriminalize drugs kicks in, we read a story like the one out of Liberty…
MU B-Ball Team Posts Lowest Academic Score of All Six Major Conferences
If the University of Missouri did not have enough trouble with its sports team, its men’s basketball program registered the…
KU Police Wrap Up Investigation of Rape at Basketball Dorm, Refer to DA
As reported in the Daily Kansan, the University’s Public Safety Office has wrapped up its investigation into the alleged rape of…
Columbia Donut Shop Closes, Owner Blames MU Brouhaha
“Love you Columbia,” wrote Jason Brockman, owner of Strange Donuts, “but we gotta keep it moving.” “Effective immediately,” Brockman continued,…
Prosecutors Charge North KC Teacher With Sodomy
Jackson County prosecutors charged James Green Jr., 52, currently a teacher and coach at Northgate Middle School in the North Kansas…
Nativity House KC: Philanthropy Gets Entrepreneurial
Strange but true: there are still organizations in the Kansas City area that work to assist people in need and…
MU’s Michael Sam Blames the Media for Failed NFL Career
When University of Missouri defensive Michael Sam announced he was gay in February 2014, he expected the hubbub to last…
Former Star Sportswriter Jason Whitlock Slams “Far-Left Political Ideologues”
Love him or hate him, no one ever accused former ESPN pundit and Kansas City Star sportswriter Jason Whitlock of…
No Joke: WSU Student Government Bans Libertarian Group For Support of First Amendment
University student governments are making parody difficult. On Wednesday of this week, the Wichita State University Student Government Association (SGA) refused…
Kansas Rep Lance Kinzer Featured in Best-Selling “Benedict Option”
In his New York Times review written on the day the book came out three weeks ago, David Brooks called…
Johnson, Platte Top Healthy County List, Wyandotte Next-to-Last
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s annual county health rankings, Johnson County clocks in as the healthiest in Kansas, and…
FBI Analyst Slams Star Coverage of UMKC Rape
Frustrated by the failure of the local media to cover the rape of an unconscious co-ed in her UMKC dorm…