“Can’t fight progress,” my father observed as he pitched his plan to buy our family’s first automatic dishwasher.  “Why would we want one”? I remember my mother’s counter. “We already have two daughters.” Fortunately for…

James Newland, a student at McKinley Elementary School, felt a little bit “on yellow” Thursday. That’s because another student kept bothering him while he was trying to do his work. What does it mean to…

Older adults sometimes fail to understand the enormous pressure felt by “kids these days,” Dr. Judy Hughey, an educator and representative of Kansas school counselors, said. She recalled a recent conversation with a grandfather who…

Wichita Public School teachers are receiving a more than a 3.5 percent increase in salary. In Topeka, the increase is nearly 8 percent, that district’s largest in 26 years. School districts across Kansas are raising…

Stephanie Defebaugh knew a teaching career was in her future — as soon as the timing was right. But that took a while to find. Stephanie graduated from Pittsburg State University in December 2015 with…

What became clear to members of a school steering committee Thursday afternoon was that each time they present their plans to a group of the uninitiated, they’re going to have to start at square one…