Jan 13, 2017 08:23AM ● By Kara Schweiss
Laura Kirshenbaum is a straight-A student, but it is not good grades that her mother talks about first when describing her daughter’s schola...
Aug 26, 2016 05:52PM ● By Jessi Thomsen
Robert S. Runyon, posing in an austere-looking suit and tie, gazes down upon patrons from his portrait in the University of Nebraska at Omah...
Feb 01, 2014 01:00PM ● By David Williams
The frostbitten months carry additional and sometimes frustrating challenges when taking my two preschool-age grandsons for the weekend. The...
Jan 23, 2014 02:50PM ● By Katie Anderson
Martin Fischer, a famous physician, said, “I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise...
Jan 19, 2014 04:30PM ● By Katie Anderson
Retaining (or flunking) students who have not mastered the skills and content of a specific grade level in school is not a recommended pract...
Jan 12, 2014 03:30PM ● By Kim Carpenter
Scholar, lawyer, professor, arts administrator, university dean. David Thompson has had all these professional titles, but he’s impossible t...
Dec 20, 2013 04:20PM ● By Kim Carpenter
Way down on the Giggle Farm, the Guffaw family grows grinning laughing stalks and chuckleberries by the bushel full. Farmer Guffaw and his w...
Dec 07, 2013 08:45AM ● By Katie Anderson
Social media has become a constant in our daily lives over the past few years. For my generation, Facebook started the trend. Everyone had a...
Dec 03, 2013 03:20PM ● By Katie Anderson
Most students are introduced to band and orchestra in the later years of their elementary education. But that doesn’t mean they have to wait...
Nov 22, 2013 01:20PM ● By Chris Wolfgang
Colton Allen, a seventh grader at King Science and Technology Magnet Center, counts the tilapia swimming circles in the horse trough. “Eleve...
Nov 01, 2013 02:30PM ● By Bev Carlson
I’ve worked at Lutheran Family Services for well over three years now, and I can pinpoint my toughest day at work.It was the day I was inter...
Oct 26, 2013 01:20PM ● By Katie Anderson
Hopefully by now all parents of Nebraska public school children have received the results of the Nebraska State Accountability (NeSA) test. ...
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