Education

Thirty-six million adults in the United States lack basic math, reading and writing skills. Of those, about 4 million make use of public and private education—leaving 9 out of 10 adult consumers who don’t utilize available learning opportunities, according to Forbes. So who’s serving these 32 million under-educated adults? Consider that employers pay out $70…

KY3.com recently reported on The Foundation for Springfield Public Schools’ initiative to foster emergency preparedness in young children. The foundation is supplying several elementary schools with emergency preparedness kits. Jeen Grabeel, the SPS Foundation’s Manager of Health Services, explains: Teaching children about emergency preparedness can also spark important conversations at home. “We have had disaster…

As we consider our founding fathers and history, we often look back with the perspective of inevitability. That is, since we know what decisions historical figures made and what the consequences of those decisions turned out to be, we sometimes forget that those men and women operated without the benefit of hindsight. For them, each…