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Lockdown At Billings School [VIDEO]

Livin Large Larry — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:54:19 +0000

For Safety concerns over a possible gun in the area, The Billings Career Center was put on lockdown just before 2 p.m. on Friday, September, 7. A 20 year old suspect was arrested at J & J’s Petro Mart after brandishing what was later described as an Airsoft gun. The Billings Career Center was put [...]

K-Bear's Crayon Holder Broke!

Livin Large Larry — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:08:18 +0000

What a great problem to have! The giant, clear plexi-glass box that has held all of our crayon’s for the last 3 Crayon’s For Kids has broken! On Monday, August 20th the nice ladies from Sweetheart Bakery dropped off 180 more boxes of crayon’s! Thank you to them and their customers for their contributions to [...]

Look At All The Crayons!

Livin Large Larry — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:06:03 +0000

The 1,000 boxes of crayons for the K-Bear Morning Show’s 3rd annual Crayons For Kids is once again successful because of your contributions! In the last two days we have had over 200 boxes dropped off to our K-Bear studio!We are now well on our way to the 1,000 plus boxes! During the first two [...]

Billings Park and Rec Adventure Camp Media Day [AUDIO]

Livin Large Larry — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:16:35 +0000

It was a pleasure hosting the 14 kids, Scott and Sawyer from Billings Park and Rec on the K-Bear Morning Show. The kids are from the Billings Park and Rec Adventure camp. A summer camp that kids attend to learn about history, sports,wildlife, nature and other cool things, including their media day on August 15.Listen [...]

School Forces Students to Delete Facebook Pages

Shauna Wright — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:00:54 +0000

Schools these days seem to have no compunctions about policing students’ use of social media. An Indiana teenager was recently expelled for swearing in a tweet, and now a Brooklyn, New York school is forcing its charges to delete their Facebook accounts — or face expulsion themselves.

Ohio School Is Paying Students For Showing Up In Class

Shauna Wright — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:00:22 +0000

Teen truancy is a real problem for a lot of schools, but especially so for the Dohn Community High School in Cincinnati. It only has a 14% graduation rate and has been deemed an “academic emergency” by the state of Ohio.

So the school is trying out a novel approach: it’s paying students to show up and behave themselves.

Unfortunate Misspelled 'SHCOOL' Sign Finally Fixed [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:52 +0000

In New York City, a misspelling on a crosswalk outside a Manhattan high school has some people worrying about the future of education. According to the city, utility workers incorrectly spelled the word “school” on a crosswalk after performing a repair last summer. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Yesterday, however, one day after the New [...]

Prestigious Waldorf Private School Keeps Computers Away from Kids

Shauna Wright — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:03 +0000

The 160 Waldorf private schools in the United States boast an impressive student body: the children of tech luminaries from firms like eBay, Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

But what makes Waldorf a seemingly odd choice for such parents is that until kids are in the eighth grade, the school is completely unwired with not a computer screen to be found.

What Are America's Most Expensive Colleges?

Shauna Wright — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:00:04 +0000

Forbes, along with the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, tallied up the cost of tuition, books, transportation, computers, and room and board to determine the new list of America’s most expensive colleges. And some of them may surprise you.

Returning Soldier Surprises Young Son at School [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30:16 +0000

We admit it. These things make us misty.

Army Specialist Matthew Peters of Owensville, Missouri spent a year deployed in Kuwait and Iraq, and hadn’t seen his young son, Blake, in more than six months. When he came home, he decided to pop in on the unsuspecting tyke at school for a hug the kid will probably never forget.