Editorial
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: On affordability, both sides are failing us...
Last year, we started running a weekly news piece on the cost of fuel in our area. We examined average costs for f…
Root cause of education problems needs addressed
Ever since Sputnik ascended the heavens in 1957, education reforms have consistently failed to improve schools.
Meeting basic needs key for kids' education
In 1943, Professor Abraham Maslow of Brooklyn College proposed that human behavior is guided by five basic needs (in this order): 1) physiological, 2) safety, …
Oregon residents left uninsured
"I am certainly willing to be held accountable for the fact that everybody who wanted coverage by Jan. 1 is not going to get it." Those words from Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber were spoken Tuesday after the state fina…
Adequate bandwidth a national issue in school testing
Many students in high-poverty schools perform poorly on state tests already. With Congress's plan to cut food stamps for the poor, elderly, and disabled, schoo…
The ethanol shuffle and other bad ideas
Have you heard of the Ethanol Shuffle? One step forward, two steps back. Actually, it's not a dance; it's part of California's clean energy policy - a program …
Poverty in schools needs addressed
In Part 7, we saw Common Core being used with second graders in New York. For K-12, the standards, readings, and suggested curriculum remain about the same - d…
Superintendent explains growth issue
Common Core putting second graders through the paces
National standards are nothing new; they have been in place at least since the 1950s. However, what the Common Core standards are doing to curriculum can best …
CBSS staff calls out Columbia Basin Herald for editorial
Thank you for your timely editorial regarding the closure of Columbia Basin Secondary School and the need for the parents of CBSS students to remain engaged with their children's academic future. We all want to mee…
Preserve affordable health insurance
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler made national news when he quickly rejected President Obama's call for insurers to extend individual heal…
A snapshot of US education in the 1950s
Many teachers are concerned about the Common Core State Standards. Compounding their anxieties, Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, has noted that the CC…
Reform WSDOT now to avoid an increase in the gas tax
You can't help feeling appalled when you read reports of the careless way the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) leadership, in Olympia, t…
Stay connected with Columbia Basin Secondary School
To Columbia Basin Secondary School parents: Keep the communication lines open with counselors and school administrators.
Teachers anxious about Common Core reading suggestions
My colleague Marianne Iksic and I realized that though the state standards were superior, the new national standards were here to stay. Between 90 to 95 percen…
Congress should rebuild Obamacare
In the midst of all the turmoil, confusion and partisan infighting over the Affordable Care Act, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's words have come back to ha…