If the debate season were over right now, Free State High School alumnus John Marshall and his University of Kansas debate partner Graham Revare would finish as the top team in the U.S. In debate, KU debate director Scott Harris said, there's no formal poll of coaches or media that ranks teams ...

With a multimillion-dollar federal grant, University of Kansas researchers will be studying a big idea for how farms might prevent crop diseases from spreading: Act less like a farm and more like a prairie. Many farms are what's called a monoculture, where there are rows upon rows of the same ...

Elementary schools across the state are about to get a large wave of new students — the teachers themselves. More than 15,000 Kansas elementary school educators — everybody from teachers to counselors to principals — must get certified in new methods to teach reading to elementary ...

The University of Kansas may have a more than $100 million task in front of it as lawmakers begin their work at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka. KU technically is staring at a $155 million reduction in funding next year, unless KU leaders can convince both the governor and lawmakers to make ...

Today’s high school students who want to be guaranteed a future spot at the University of Kansas likely will have to start meeting a new set of standards when it comes to ACT scores and grade point averages. One proposed change likely will make it more difficult for some students, while ...

UPDATED 1:35 P.M. JAN. 15 As the University of Kansas aims to do more work with the U.S. Department of Defense, it is creating an entirely new office to boost the effort. KU leaders on Wednesday announced the creation of the Office of National Defense Initiatives and added a new assistant ...