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Topic: READING

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How Another State Is Battling the Racial Achievement Gap

	8/16/05


In Columbus, Phonics Is Teaching a Tough Crowd How to Read

	8/19/05


Where It's Happenin' This Summer: Your Public Library, Perhaps?

	5/30/06


Topic: WRITING

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A Call for a Return to Term Papers

	6/29/05


�A Page a Year' Writing Plan: Building Real-World Writing Skills

	8/29/05


Spell It or Smell It: Whole Language Has Got to Go

	8/1/06


Topic: MATHEMATICS

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How to Get High-Quality Math and Science Instruction

	7/5/05


Topic: CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION

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Nebraska #4 and #5 in School Computers, But So What? The Problem With Computer-Based Curriculum

	7/27/05


Hooray: Nebraska #12 on the ACT, and #2 Regionally

	8/18/05


Bummer for Brainiacs: Nebraska Last in the Heartland on SAT Scores, 27th Overall

	8/31/05


Young Nebraska Artists Honored in National Competition

	9/6/05


Here's a High Ranking We Don't Want: Nebraska #12 in Learning Disabilities?

	9/7/05


Topic: PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

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Building Bridges Between Home and School

	8/22/05


Ponca Citizens' Group Innovates With a Website

	9/20/05


Ponca School Bond Issue Discussion is Informative and All-American

	2/2/06


A Tale of Parental Involvement: Killing 'Killing Mr. Griffin'

	7/11/06


Topic: TEACHERS & OTHER PERSONNEL

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Follow the Teachers' Lead: They're Moving to the 'Burbs, Too

	8/11/05


Grewcock Center at Grace U. Opens

	9/16/05


Longtime Teacher Predicts 'The Coming Collapse of Public Education'

	9/27/05


Teacher Tenure: Does Job Protection Go Too Far and Cost Too Much?

	3/14/06


Are Nebraska's Teachers Really All For Homosexual and Group 'Marriage'?

	6/20/06


State Teachers' Union May Get Stripped of Its Beauty Queen Title

	6/27/06


Topic: MANAGEMENT

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Are Laptops Worth the Money?

	7/26/05


Rethinking Ed Tech: Isn't It the Duty of Educators to MINIMIZE Distractions?

	9/23/05


Lincoln North Star Principal to Fix Rosh Hashanah Scheduling Blunder

	9/30/05


Superintendent Pay: How to Get the Best People For Those Eye-Popping Salaries

	3/21/06


Is Nebraska's Ed Commissioner Worthy to Be Our 'Chief'?

	6/13/06


A Bold Stroke to Return Local Control

	7/18/06


What to Say to Shut 'Em Up When They Pitch Year-Round School

	8-11-06


Topic: FINANCE

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How Vendors 'Grease' School Officials

	7/28/05


Billion-Dollar Teacher Pension Shortfall a Real Possibility

	8/22/05


Nebraska Is Sitting On $12.8 Million in Unspent Federal Education Funds?

	9/1/05


How to Beat a Bond Issue

	9/19/05


Oklahoma Study: Actual Cost of Education May Be Double What's Reported

	9/22/05


A $9 Million Theater in Lincoln Public Schools is a Dramatic -- Even Tragicomic -- Example in the Upcoming $250 Million Bond Issue Vote

	2/9/06


Could the Subsidized Lunch Stats in OPS Be Phony Baloney?

	2/21/06


'Equity' Lawsuits: What a Costly Blunder

	4/25/06


Gi-Normous School Bond Issue Fails in Katy, Texas: What a Model for Nebraska

	5/23/06


SOS Signals Good Sense

	9/26/06


Topic: PUBLIC POLICY

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Cool Schools As a Key Tool for Economic Development

	8/5/05


Learning Disabilities Guru Mel Levine Coming to Omaha; But Is This a Guy to Build State Policy Around?

	9/6/05


The Omaha Connection to 'See You At the Pole'

	9/21/05


Nebraska's Racial Graduation Gap: Another Reason to Downsize OPS

	9/28/05


Monday's Hearings in the Unicam: 2-4-6-8! Don't Make Us Consolidate!

	1/26/06


Tuesday's Hearings in the Unicam: 8-6-4-2! We Want Peace! Yes, We Do!

	1/27/06


Can 2,000 Inner-City Teachers Be Wrong?

	2/1/06


Local Control of Public Schools: Use It Or Lose It

	2/8/06


All-Day Kindergarten Is a Costly Bust, But Nebraska Goes For It, Anyway

	2/28/06


Ebony and Ivory Team Together to Dream Up a Happy Ending For the OPS Crisis

	4/11/06


Is the Learning Community Just a Smokescreen for Higher Spending?

	7/4/06


Class I Educator's $101,000 Salary

	8/18/06


Topic: INNOVATIONS & SOLUTIONS

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Arriba! A Great Idea to Help English Language Learners

	8/17/05


Schools Aren't Alone in the Task of Developing Future Bookworms

	9/8/05


Pinnacle Bank-Daubert B-Ball Team No. 1 in the Nation

	9/14/05


For the Straight Scoop About Religious Expression in Schools

	9/15/05


Nabity Calls for OPS to Quit Takeover Attempt; Proposes a Review of Consolidation

	9/29/05


Tax Activist Ed Jaksha Dies

	10/3/05


Nabity's 'Out of the Box' Solution to the OPS Controversy

	2/3/06


Nabity's Idea is Super-Bowl Quality; Pittsburgh Doing Much the Same Thing

	2/3/06


How the Nabity Plan Could Help OPS Vastly Improve Academics for Immigrant Children

	2/6/06


How and Why the Nabity Plan Would Solve the OPS Crisis

	2/7/06


Go Big Ed Hall-of-Famer Paul Filipi Sends Kids a $$$ Valentine

	2/14/06


Three Ways to Save the Class I Schools

	3/7/06


How to Start a 'New School Old School'

	3/8/06


How to Start a 'New School Old School' -- Part II

	3/9/06


Talking Points For a Smart Solution For OPS

	4/4/06


Success Stories Starring Deprived Students Outside of Public School Settings

	5/2/06


Harlem Children's Zone: A Model For Inner-City Omaha

	5/16/06


Three Better Solutions For Nebraska's Three Education Crises

	8/8/06


A 'Pied Piper' Solution for Our 'Cat in the Hat' Problems

	11/29/06


Educational Savings Accounts: The 'No Brainer' Solution For OPS, Class I Schools

	12/8/06

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