El Paso Herald-Post El Paso News & Opinion
Here in South and West Texas, border security is not an abstract issue. Every week meeting with folks across 29 counties of the 23rd District of Texas, securing our border and fixing our broken immigration system …
January, 2019
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12 January
Op-Ed: White Girl in a Brown City
I grew up in El Paso, was born here. As a teenager, I used to walk the streets with my friends at all hours of the night. And sometimes, I walked alone. I was never …
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8 January
Op-Ed: Where are You Learning to Be Uncomfortable?
“There’s only two things I despise: Those who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.” —Nigel Powers, Goldmember When I was a much younger man, still in college, I was a bartender at …
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8 January
The Wondering Latina: Reflections on Trump’s Speech
I am so sick and tired of having the border attacked by spreading lies and false images. I am a Latina, a Texan, a proud El Pasoan and I can’t stand people that talk about …
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8 January
Op-Ed: A Card Game and the Border Wall
With the issue of border security and border wall funding flooding just about every media outlet, the topic of the wall, and just how and where it will be built has been popular fodder for …
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7 January
The Wondering Latina: Making ‘Herstory’ in Washington, DC
El Paso has now added another page in the history…or rather herstory books! This past weekend the 116th Congress was sworn in and the day was filled with some ceiling-shattering moments. To begin with there …
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4 January
Analysis: Without New State Money, Is it Still School Finance Reform?
Two of the most expensive ways to make Texas voters happy just happen to be the top priorities of the state leaders and legislators assembling next week in Austin. The state’s school finance system is …
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3 January
Video: Cornyn Calls on Democrats to Return to Negotiating Table on Border Security, Ending Shutdown
WASHINGTON – On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the government shutdown and the need for bipartisan negotiation on legislation the president would support. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s floor remarks …
December, 2018
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31 December
Op-Ed: The Problem with Learning Technology is Professors That Don’t Understand It
Kirstin R. Wilcox, Lecturer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one in a growing long line of higher ed educators that refuse to wrap their big brains around how to use educational technology. Writing …
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25 December
Op-Ed: Jane Pollock PhD. The i5 Approach: Using Technology to Teach Thinking
Several weeks ago I approached Jane E. Pollock, PhD, author of the book “The i5 Approach” and asked if she might write a short guest blog, in lieu of my typical author interviews. She graciously …
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21 December
Op-Ed: The Lessons of “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Christmas is the time when movies of hope and holiday spirit run 24×7 reminding us of what Christmas is about. For me, that means the greatest Christmas movie of all time, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” …
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18 December
Op-Ed: What If Educators Had To Face The Press After Testing?
After every professional football game, a press conference is held, where the coaches and select players go in front of the sports reporter and do a dissection of the game. This happens as well in …
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11 December
Op-Ed: On Television, Reality Isn’t So
I am beginning to see a pattern develop that perhaps we can share with our students. Maybe, just maybe, these shows are fake. Reality may not be reality, at least on television. On television: Ghost …
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4 December
Op-Ed: The Catch 22 of the International Children’s Digital Library
Chances are, you have never heard of the International Children’s Digital Library. The ICDL is an online repository of books for children ages 3-13, written in over 50 languages. The library has over 4000 books. …
November, 2018
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27 November
Op-Ed: What’s Your Mindset?
In 1998, a group of professors at Beloit College in Wisconsin created a list of experiences that the incoming freshmen class had always had in their lives that their professors may or may not have …
