First, state lawmakers wanted to make sure teachers understood what they were NOT allowed to teach; now they are introducing the bits they do want teachers to include, despite repeated insistence they are not serving their own personal agendas by doing so. Ohio educators at all levels have ...
Public officials who have fallen victim to brief, distorted and whitewashed versions of the Christopher Columbus story that appeared in mid- to late-19th Century elementary school history textbooks would do well, in this era, to consider WHY there was ever a “Columbus Day” observed in the ...
The war on climate science has returned with a vengeance. The Energy Department recently banned several words including “climate change” and “emissions.” Bipartisan-approved renewable energy projects are being canceled. Environmental agencies are being dismantled. Climate science based ...
Well-educated students who are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st Century are vital to our success as a state. Today’s students will have unprecedented opportunity to succeed in life if they are properly educated and prepared. Earlier this month, West Virginia Board of Education ...
I attended the local city council August meeting in Parkersburg. They passed (to go into effect in six months) an animal feeding ban in a local park. Several individuals (community caregivers) in that area have been feeding the stray and feral cats. The ban would result in these cats starving. ...
Today’s Democratic Party is in complete chaos, is leaderless with no issues to run on, except as being the anti-Trump party, opposing Trump, on every issue, including the popular issues which got Trump elected. The Democratic Party is totally unconcerned over the political assassination of ...