Jayden Bates-Bland

Centro Latino tutors focus on reading lessons after school on Oct. 25, 2022. The after school program is available to kids of all backgrounds K-12. One of the program's goals is to increase high school retention rates as well as increase the rate of Latinos entering higher education.

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Educators respond to Missouri Senate bill that aims to ban three-cueing from classes

Jayden Bates-Bland

Three-cueing encourages students to use context clues — such as sentence structure or pictures — to figure out unfamiliar words. Critics have accused this method of teaching students to guess words rather than fully decode them.

A pixelated display of University of Missouri's Jesse Hall and the six columns on the Francis Quadrangle are in the background. In the foreground is a simulated text conversation with an AI chatbot. The student, symbolized by a gray talking bubble, is asking, "Can you help me find the course syllabus?" The AI chatbot, symbolized by a gold talking bubble and a robot head next to it, is drafting up a response. This is demonstrated by the three dots in the middle of the chatbot's talking bubble.

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The University of Missouri prepares to launch Show-Me AI program

Jayden Bates-Bland

The University of Missouri has been testing out its Show-Me AI program since September 2025 and hopes to fully launch it by the 2026-27 school year.

Job seeker James Baxter, left, listens to Carmen Joyner during a job fair in Dallas, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Missouri's unemployment rate is rising

Jayden Bates-Bland

According to the Missouri Department of Labor, the number of people in Missouri filing 1099-G tax forms this year is the highest it’s been since 2021.