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Lincoln Education & Schools

Springtime and the education round-robin

  • Council on Foreign relations task force
  • April 29, 2012
I have been examining Lincoln Public Schools for the education consumer about two years. My earliest columns described in detail ineffective...
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LB870 affirms the educational caste system: separate and unequal

Introduced by Education Committee Chairman Greg Adams, Nebraska LB870 combines multiple measures for schools to ensure they get credit for...
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Schools: A crisis born of limitless money and bureaucratic mind-sapping comfort

  • Vanished kingdoms Norman Davies
  • February 29, 2012
The failure of public education in the United States is analogous to Norman Davies book just published in the United States, Vanished Kingdoms. ...
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Culture chasm in the United States: Cause and cure

  • Culture gap
  • February 15, 2012
In his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 Charles Murray describes how upper and lower income Americans have drifted...
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Education sentencing guidelines portend a merge with corrections

  • Compulsory education laws
  • February 4, 2012
Senator John Wightman of Lexington introduced LB996 which would deny parents the option of allowing their child to drop out of school at age 16....
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Expectations produce tangible results: Move on Commissioner Breed and good luck

  • Student achievement and expectations
  • January 19, 2012
Several studies confirm placebos can be more effective than the intended treatment-even without the sugar pills.After four weeks, hotel workers...
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Truancy: often the only alternative

  • Nebraska truancy law
  • January 4, 2012
“…chronically truant students scored about 30 points below average on the statewide reading assessment.” (Lincoln Journal Star 1...
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Behavior is communication

  • Behavior is communication
  • December 25, 2011
Parents of the Lincoln Public School student banished to an isolation room, despite expert advice to the contrary, have appealed Judge Camp’s...
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U.S. rises to 4th place in OECD report

The Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation issued a report of member countries’ rising inequality. The top rankings (highest...
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$180,000 for teach-and-protect

  • Miseducation and the courts
  • November 22, 2011
The Woods Charitable Fund awarded Lincoln Public Schools $180,000 “to help strengthen a new approach to handling student behavior challenges...
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