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December 26, 2011 2011—The Year in Education
December 26, 2011 No Out-of-State Online Programs Train Kansas Teachers
December 18, 2011 In Praise of Lecturing
December 7, 2011 Testing Pushes Out Student Teachers
November 25, 2011 Graduation Rates Not Simple
November 9, 2011 Mandatory Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse
November 5, 2011 Teacher Pay Is Too High?
October 26, 2011 So You Want to Be a Video Game Millionaire?
October 14, 2011 Opt Out Group Joins "Occupy Wall Street" Movement
September 26, 2011 Attack On Academic Freedom
September 21, 2011 Truth in Labeling
September 13, 2011 Getting High on Life
September 5, 2011 "Academic Spring"—Time for Revolution
August 28, 2011 Regents Press for Generic Courses
August 21, 2011 Taking the "State" Out of State University
July 31, 2011 National Science Will Be Less Science
July 23, 2011 Kansas Science Heading Down the Teach-To-The-Test Road?
July 10, 2011 Kansas Low on AP Courses: Good or Bad?
July 9, 2011 When Teachers Cheat
July 4, 2011 Wild Chicken Universities
June 26, 2011 China’s High Stakes Exam
May 15, 2011 Fantasyland, D.C.
May 8, 2011 Three Danger Signs
May 2, 2011 Lay Your Pencils Down
April 24, 2011 Assessment Scores Leveling Off
April 17, 2011 Reverse Brain Drain
April 17, 2011 Red Cedar State?
April 10, 2011 "500 of Anything Is an Awful Lot, Isn’t It?"
April 10, 2011 Kansas Federal Education Dollars Go To Florida, Tennessee...
April 3, 2011 Ignorance Has a Long Half-life
April 3, 2011 G.E.D. Not Equivalent to High School Diploma
March 27, 2011 Another "Sputnik Moment"?
March 27, 2011 Watching a Hydrogen Bomb, in Your Undershorts
March 20, 2011 Kansas Is Not New York City or Wisconsin or...
March 19, 2011 Bad Students Cause Good Students To Pay More
March 12, 2011 Tsunami of Ignorance
March 6, 2011 State Governance of Education
February 27, 2011 U.S. Department of Education Has Jaded History
February 20, 2011 Kill No Child Left Behind
February 20, 2011 School Consolidation History
February 13, 2011 Where Are The Snowmen?
February 6, 2011 A National Curriculum By Any Other Name...
January 30, 2011 Tigers or Pussycats?
January 30, 2011 Back to 1992 Funding
January 23, 2011 Suitable, Adequate, Minimal, Abysmal...
January 23, 2011 Rich School, Poor School
January 15, 2011 Perpetual Funding Crisis
January 9, 2011 “Seamless Articulation” or Quality? Pick One
December 28, 2010 The Year 2010 in Education
December 28, 2010 Financial Literacy...Humbug!
December 5, 2010 China Students Score Highest
December 5, 2010 No “Edu-Leaks”
November 28, 2010 Admitting the Unqualified
November 27, 2010 Take This Survey
November 21, 2010 Undocumented College Students
November 16, 2010 Undocumented Students Get An Education
November 11, 2010 Kansas Education Jobs Decline
November 11, 2010 "Creative Insubordination"
November 2, 2010 Kansas Adopts National Curriculum
October 26, 2010

“Retentionitis”
October 16, 2010 How Electronic Toys Make Us Dumb
October 10, 2010 The Company You Keep
October 5, 2010 Cookie Cutter Curriculum
September 29, 2010 Messing With School Funding
September 19, 2010 Terminator Teacher
September 12, 2010 Performance Testing? Been There, Done That.
September 4, 2010 Online Student Buyer Beware!
August 29, 2010 A Real Higher Ed Governor
August 29, 2010 A Real K-12 Education Governor
August 21, 2010 Why Students Drop-Out
August 14, 2010 Counting Drop-Outs
August 14, 2010 Feynman’s "Different Box of Tools"
July 11, 2010 The Myth of “Best Practices”
July 4, 2010 CDC Report: “Youth Risks”
July 4, 2010 Texting Becoming Teenage Girls' Addiction
June 27, 2010 Should Education be Marketed?
June 27, 2010 Sciences, Performing Arts Rejecting Online Courses
June 23, 2010 Close the “Window” on College Admissions
June 13, 2010 Gatekeeping
June 13, 2010 Schools for Fair Funding Rides Again
June 6, 2010 University, Inc.
June 4, 2010 Nature: Delicate or Durable?
May 16, 2010 High Stakes Exit Exams Not for Kansas
May 16, 2010 Food Nannies Come to School
May 9, 2010 When Bad Things Happen
May 5, 2010 Buying the Future
April 25, 2010 A Broader Narrower Curriculum
April 13, 2010 A "State Right" and a State Responsibility
April 18, 2010 Time for a "Hard 20"?
April 13, 2010 Taking Time to Learn
April 4, 2010 Research: Boys Addicted to Video Games
March 28, 2010 Kansas Schools Not "Crying Wolf"
March 28, 2010 Crossing the Rubicon
March 21, 2010 No Child Left Behind - The Next Generation
March 15, 2010 Return of the Scarlet Letter
March 7, 2010 Losing the Spirit?
March 7, 2010 New Regents President Will Face Challenges
March 2, 2010 Killer Whales and Puppy Dogs
February 21, 2010 Academic Side of School Consolidation
February 14, 2010 Everyone an Education Expert
February 14, 2010 Secretary Duncan Says Don’t Teach-to-the-Test?
February 7, 2010 Time to Shut Down the U.S. Department of Education
January 31, 2010 No Computer? Not a Person!
January 24, 2010 American Children Immersed in Electronics
January 24, 2010 Fund Schools or Consolidate Them
January 17, 2010 Time to Govern Higher Education
January 10, 2010 Bachelors Degrees 25% Off
January 9, 2010 Wikipedia - Convenient but Not Trustworthy
January 2, 2010 Out of State Degrees - Buyer Beware
December 28, 2009 Top Ten Kansas Education Issues
December 19, 2009 Education Crisis Real
December 6, 2009 Computers Not Green
November 29, 2009 ACT for Every Student
November 22, 2009 Ten Ways to Save Education Money
November 16, 2009 School Funding Desperate
November 15, 2009 School Consolidation: Facts & Feelings
November 10, 2009 The Admiral's Prophecy
October 26, 2009 Vaccinations and Fear
October 25, 2009 In Praise of Chalk
October 18, 2009 The Kansas School Naturalist
October 13, 2009 The Kansas Commissioner of Education
October 10, 2009 Only Three Science Nobels Reflect U.S. Education
October 6, 2009 Missing Piece of the Health Care Problem
October 4, 2009 Universities: Business or a “Public Good”?
September 27, 2009 Kansas Teachers Again Lowest on Creationism
September 20, 2009 Not All Teaching Masters Degrees Are Useless
September 13, 2009 What Can a School Require?
September 6, 2009 Unqualified Admissions
September 1, 2009 University Beauty Pageant
August 23, 2009 TV Forum on the Future of Kansas Education
August 15, 2009 Gud Nuf
August 9, 2009 "Point-and-Click" Degrees
August 2, 2009 What Ever Happened to "Free Willy"?
July 25, 2009 Carnegie Units Are Necessary
July 17, 2009 Videogame Addicts
July 9, 2009 Clean Coal and Safe Sex
July 5, 2009 Only One in Five Needs a College Degree
June 27, 2009 "Socialized" Education
June 21, 2009 Blurring Boundaries
June 14, 2009 State Tax Shortfall and Bigger Class Sizes
June 7, 2009 Vetting the Teacher in Your Child's Classroom
June 7, 2009 No Recession for China's Education System
May 10, 2009 Children as Numbers
May 3, 2009 Animal Research Helps Animals Too
April 26, 2009 Second Languages
April 19, 2009 - b Traditional versus Innovative
April 19, 2009 Tax Shortfall and Education
April 12, 2009 The Goodness of Small Rural Schools
April 5, 2009 Efficiency or Quality?
March 28, 2009 High Cost of Technology
March 21, 2009 Unprofessional Development
March 14, 2009 Nationalizing Public Schooling
March 8, 2009 At What Price Energy?
February 28, 2009 Wobegon Nation
February 21, 2009 People or Programs?
February 14, 2009 TV Conversion..."No We Can't"
February 8, 2009 Perma-Temps
February 1 , 2009 No Online Degrees
January 23, 2009 The "Dr. Fox Effect"
January 16, 2009 Education Budget Cuts
January 10, 2009 Make the Speed Limit 100...
January 4, 2009 Teachers Should not be Trained Online
December 28, 2008 Sin Taxes
December 21, 2008 New Year’s Resolution: Better TV Resolution
December 14, 2008 Santa Claus and the Establishment Clause
December 9, 2008 21st Century Learning Disaster
December 1, 2008 Three Children’s Stories
November 23, 2008 It’s a Wonderful (Public School) Life
November 17, 2008 Cheating
November 11, 2008 Homeschooling
November 3, 2008 Is School Consolidation...Inevitable?
October 28, 2008 What Tests Don’t Test
October 22, 2008 Rural Experiences Valuable
October 10, 2008 Campaign Slogans for Education
October 5, 2008 Where Are the Boys?
September 29, 2008 Medical Ignorance Exceeds Cost of Fed Bail-out
October 1, 2008 Education Fads
Sept. 23, 2008 More Science!
Sept. 19, 2008 Award-winning Teachers Don’t Follow Cookbooks
September 22, 2008 The Good Child Left Behind
September 18, 2008 Performance Pay Doesn’t Work
August 28, 2008 Silent U.S. Scientist Shortage Grows
August 14, 2008 Websites Temporary, Unreliable
August 19, 2008 Screensize Matters
July 27, 2008 10 Questions to Ask State Board of Education Candidates
July 21, 2008 Social Promotion Goes to College
July 1, 2008 Starting College in High School
July 5, 2008 Worse Than Pornography
June 15, 2008 Time to Kill “No Child Left Behind”
June 14, 2008 Paying Premium for Regular
June 10, 2008 Paperless Fraud
  Earthquakes and Education
May 15, 2008 Honest Recommendations
May 5, 2008 No “Value Added”
May 6, 2008 Licensed Kansas Science Teachers Exceed Available Positions
April 27, 2008 Kansas Teacher Shortage Has Real Solutions
April 20, 2008 KPA - Barrier to Teaching We can Do Without
August 21, 2007 How Can Teachers Teach What They Don’t Know? Wichita Eagle page 7A
June 8, 2007 Lowering Standards Bad Way to Fill Teaching Spots Wichita Eagle page 7A
February 1, 2007 Teacher Shortage Due to Low Pay, Focus on Testing Wichita Eagle page 7A
  Science Standards Need to Be “Natural” Wichita Eagle  
May 4, 2006 Don’t Make Teaching an Assembly-line Job Thursday Wichita Eagle  
March 17, 2006 Does Sex-Ed Policy Include Biology? Wichita Eagle page 9A
January 31, 2006 Bonafide is Better (anti-masters-degree-for-teaching-methods-courses) Wichita Eagle  
November 23, 2005 Boycotting ID Debate Was a Mistake Wichita Eagle page 11A
May 17, 2005 Christianity, Evolution Not in Conflict Wichita Eagle  
April 13, 2005 Opt-Out Available But Rarely Used or Needed Wichita Eagle page 11A
March 2, 2005 Kansas Schools Getting Bum Rap On Evolution Wichita Eagle  
July 28, 2004 Too Much is Out of Teachers' Control Wichita Eagle  
November 6, 2003 Slow Down With all the Reforming of Education Wichita Eagle  
September 5, 2003 "Seamless Articulation" a Simpleminded Solution Wichita Eagle  
August 15, 2003 Evolution Teaching Unlikely to Change Wichita Eagle page 7A
July 4, 2003 Congress Uses Bribery to Federalize Education Wichita Eagle page 7A
June 5, 2003 Kids Need Experience With Animals Wichita Eagle  
May 9, 2003 Teacher Test is Obsolete (eliminate PPST) Wichita Eagle  
April 1, 2003 State Should Not Censor Sexuality Classes Wichita Eagle  
February 22, 2003 School Consolidation Will Occur Wichita Eagle page 7A
January 24, 2003 Don't Stop Electing State Board Members Wichita Eagle page 11A
September 19, 2002 Students Also Responsible for Learning Wichita Eagle  
August 2, 2002 State BOE Too Busy for One-Issue Zealots Wichita Eagle page 10A
September 28, 2001 BOE Made Wise Decision Wichita Eagle  

 
 
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