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Take a look at the video above. Pretty powerful stuff huh? I cringe whenever I hear someone say something derogatory about the use of technology in our schools. “We buy anything with blinking lights.” “Stop …
January, 2019
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27 January
Op-Ed: International Holocaust Remembrance Day-What relevance does it have for me?
Sixteen months ago I had the opportunity to walk through a beautiful forest on the outskirts of Riga, Latvia’s capital city. A path had been built through part of the forest, and on this autumn …
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22 January
Op-Ed: The Green Book Is Divisive, And Maybe That’s A Good Thing.
“The Green Book,” a movie about a white New York bouncer that drives a gifted New York black pianist in the deep south through a concert tour during the Jim Crow 60’s. The movie has …
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18 January
Analysis: Property taxes in Texas are high. Don’t expect the Legislature to change that.
Restrain, reform, rein in, restrict and limit are not synonyms for the word Texas property taxpayers crave: cut. This is an alert: Your property taxes will not be falling, in spite of all the talk …
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15 January
Op-Ed: We Need To Treat All of Education As If Computers Exist
Have you ever heard of the app “PhotoMath?” PhotoMath allows anyone with a smartphone or tablet to write out a math problem, point their device at it, take a picture, and the app will solve the …
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15 January
Op-Ed: Hurd on the Hill – Fighting to Secure Our Border
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 …
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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 …
