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Missouri pilots new standardized test model for public schools with faster results

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Missouri education officials are piloting a new model for the state’s decades-old standardized test, shifting the Missouri Assessment Program from a single end-of-year exam to a through-year assessment with multiple checkpoints. The change is designed to give a clearer picture of student growth during the school year and deliver results within 24 to 48 hours, […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Morpho Mania 

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The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House hosts a special exhibition during spring break season, celebrating the final days of winter with a flood of Blue Morpho butterflies.  Morpho Mania features […]

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Myranda Levins

Spring Training

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This year, the St. Louis Aquarium is going bigger, brighter, and longer. For the first time, with two teams, freshwater grit meets saltwater flow. Two waters. One splashy showdown. Cheer […]

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Myranda Levins

March 27 in History: From Yuri Gagarin's Death to the First Cherry Blossoms in Washington

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On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin—the first human to travel into space—died in a routine training flight when his MiG-15 jet crashed near Moscow. His death mattered immediately because it shook the Soviet space program and the wider world at a time when spaceflight was closely tied to national pride, scientific ambition, and public imagination. It still matters today because Gagarin’s short life captures a lasting truth about exploration: breakthroughs can arrive quickly, but

Employment status at issue as US Senate panel tackles knotty college sports landscape

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WASHINGTON — Mikayla Pivec said she worked more than 50 hours per week as a women’s college basketball player, but earned less than $8 an hour from a $1,600 monthly stipend. The professional basketball player and former star at Oregon State University said she was testifying at Thursday’s U.S. Senate panel hearing on reshaping college athletics […]
Shauneen Miranda

CBS News Under Bari Weiss Sees Worst Ratings In Quarter Century

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When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby kid David) hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” “independent, principled journalism,” and a unique “entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision” that would completely modernize the network and reach the “everyday Americans” traditionally ignored by mainstream […]
Karl Bode

Bipartisan US senators want investigation into farm equipment companies moving jobs to Mexico

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A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators from the Midwest on Thursday asked the Commerce Department to investigate major agricultural machinery manufacturers, saying they paid shareholders handsomely while offshoring jobs. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat, and Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to open an investigation under a law that allows tariffs […]
Jacob Fischler