Columns & Editorials

By the time you read this article, I will be 227 miles away from Forney, road weary from the drive, probably hungry - I am generally always hungry - and

Today’s students spend a lot of time preparing for tests which seems to interfere with more comprehensive learning in many cases. With so much focus placed squarely on standardized testing,

I was introduced to grief at a young age. Well, I thought I was sage and wise at the ripe old age of 20.

At a recent birthday party, I was introduced to the friend of a friend of a cousin. She is very young. 

The idea that the rich, powerful and influential can buy their way into elite universities or anywhere else should not be a surprise to most people. 

While children and television aren’t exciting subject matter, we do need to address this topic, just to lay some groundwork. From educational PBS programming to anime to classic Warner Brothers,

When I was 13, I won the school spelling bee at Forney Middle School and advanced to Kaufman County and then to the state competition. I was happy and proud

Not long ago, a query to a teacher about his or her greatest concern in the classroom might have been a lack of supplies or something similarly benign. A response

Are you a scaredy-cat? I am. I reason that everyone has an immobilizing, irrational fear of some sort. My cousin, for instance, hates bad weather, the sort that forces you

It is always refreshing when teachers or students do amazing things in education. 

My mother-in-law Nicki likes to say, “Well, I don’t feel old ‘til I look in the mirror.” She’s 72 years young. 

Kelly tried to absorb what she had just heard. Mr. Destiny had just told her that a library of secrets covering three thousand years lined the walls of the old abandon subway as far as she could see.