Opinion

April, 2019

• 23 April

  Op-Ed: Traditional Textbooks Make No Difference in Your Child’s Learning. Let’s Change the Model.

  

  There is a dirty little secret that textbook publishers don’t want the people in education to know. That little secret? Textbooks have little to no impact on student achievement. You read that right: Little to …
• 23 April

  Op-Ed: El Paso’s very own “Room of Requirement”

  

  Over the last year I have been taking my students to the Borderland Rainbow Center and begun volunteering and sending consumers to get services from the BRC. I have learned to call the little house …
• 22 April

  Op-Ed: Hurd on the Hill: Fighting for our Parks

  

  There’s no better time to go outside than Springtime. Here in the 23rd District of Texas, there’s also no better time to find your park, and you have eight incredible options to choose from across …
• 20 April

  Op-Ed: Purified water safeguards public’s health

  

  When you brush your teeth each morning, do you ever pause to think about how that fresh water arrives at your tap? Beyond the water tanks, pumps and pipelines that deliver water to your home, …
• 16 April

  Op-Ed: We are teaching kids for jobs that don’t even exist yet – A 2019 Update

  

  “We are teaching kids for jobs that don’t even exist yet.” Most teachers have heard that phrase, or some variation of it, during a professional development somewhere along in their career journey. It became popular …
• 10 April

  Cornyn Urges Acting DHS Secretary to Prioritize Efficiency of Trade, Travel at Texas Ports of Entry

  

  WASHINGTON— On Wednesday U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan urging him to prioritize efficiency at Texas’ ports of entry as he develops a strategy to …
• 9 April

  Op-Ed: Hey kids: Let’s learn a useless skill!

  

  Here is a little game you can play with your coworkers: try to find a document at your work that is written in cursive from beginning to end. Go ahead I will wait. How many …
• 8 April

  Op-Ed: A Look Back at PFLAG’s Youth Trans Visibility Event

  

  Sundays are generally family days for me. And as I prepared myself for PFLAG’s Youth Trans Visibility Event, I had the thought I wanted to stay home to be with my family. As soon as …
• 4 April

  Op-Ed: Paychecks or Humanity?

  

  I cross the international border between Cd. Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas about 4 times a week. I am amongst the thousands of transnational fronterizxs that live their life crossing the frontera as part …
• 4 April

  Op-Ed: Hurd on the Hill: Russia is a threat

  

  Here’s something you won’t hear on cable news: Special Counsel Robert Mueller, our intelligence community and Republicans and Democrats in Congress all agree that Russia is a threat. For over two years in Congress, I’ve …
• 2 April

  Op-Ed: Teachers That are Not Connected Take Away Opportunities From Students

  

  Have you ever mentally kicked yourself in the butt for missing an exciting opportunity because you never knew about it? Missed that $49 Southwest ticket to Hawaii because your best friend who usually tells you …
• 2 April

  Op-Ed: Cornyn – Humanitarian Crisis at the Border Needs Compromise, Not Politics

  

  WASHINGTON – Tuesday on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) urged his colleagues to work together to address the humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s floor remarks are …

March, 2019

• 30 March

  Op-Ed: Lack of Critical Thinking by Students and the Media. Example #34523195323

  

  A recent piece on a local news station depicted the supposed problem of “milky” water coming from a water fountain at a local high school. Indeed, a semi-viral video was taken that shows what appears to be …
• 28 March

  Hurd Joins House Intel Republicans to Call for Adam Schiff to Step Down as Committee Chairman

  

  WASHINGTON, DC – Former undercover CIA officer U.S. Representative Will Hurd (TX-23), who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after joining Republican Committee Members to call for Chairman Adam Schiff to …
• 26 March

  Op-Ed: Positive Deviance: A Different Way to Solve Problems

  

  Chances are you have never heard of the term “Positive Deviance.” Positive Deviance (PD) is a way of problem solving. Instead of looking at the bad and trying to correct for it, one looks at …