Benchmark. MAP. STAAR. Testing. An endless stream of questions, data, and standardization. Teachers and students lose precious classroom time to tests and the preparation for these tests. They lose time...

Politicians only have the stamina to fight for their pet projects as they seem directly tied to their egos. After 21 Republicans voted against school vouchers, leading to an 84-63 failure, Governor Gregg...

Social Security is the foundation for retirement for millions of Americans. Two provisions to Social Security, the Government Pension Offset (GPO), enacted in 1977, and the Windfall Elimination Provision,...

Education in the state of Texas is in peril. Politicians, including Governor Greg Abbott, continue to enforce dictator-like legislation, or the lack thereof, to serve their personal agendas. With the...

Censoring. Banning books. Controlling information. These ideas seem like they should be sequestered to history books or examined during an analysis of the novel 1984, but with the recent decisions...

Students complain about how boring high school is and lament the fact that it isn’t what they see on movies and TV shows. While reality is frequently a far cry from what is found on both the...

The current generation of students in schools was born after the events that changed the world on September 11.  We do not have first-hand knowledge of what transpired that day and we are not aware...

The school’s system for calculating class rank is broken.  There was a shift about a decade ago that moved the cut-off to finalize class rank from after the 5th six weeks to after the 3rd six...

Recently, politicians have proposed lowering the voting age to 16. Even if they do not acknowledge it, their true motives are to garner more votes for their political party. Though there are certainly...