Our children’s education is one of the most important and most sacred responsibilities of parents. Parents have the largest impact on their child’s education and parent involvement is one of the most significant indicators of a child’s success in school (Mapp, Carver, & Lander, 2017). ...

Unfortunately, in the short time we homo sapiens have existed on this 4.5-billion-year-old Planet Earth, we have trashed the place. Climate change, deforestation, desertification, plastics in everything, etc. Fortunately, though, we large-brained hominids have evolved an almost-magical ...

Would I be fast enough? That’s the thought that ran circles in my head after the news of the school shooting at the Perry Middle and High School campus on Thursday. A 17-year-old student shot and killed a sixth grader and shot and wounded the high school principal, two other staff members ...

Studies show that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, student attendance decreased dramatically; data in the Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) also changed to reflect this new reality. Although we are no longer experiencing the pandemic, attendance statistics have yet to return to ...

Like many Iowans, my thoughts have been rather chaotic since the horrible news from Perry High School last week. The events were so sad and senseless. A 17-year-old student was dead, having shot himself. An 11-year-old sixth-grader, known for his big smile and cheerful outlook, was dead from ...

As a native Iowan, I was vigilantly reading the news on Thursday, trying to stay updated on the latest developments of the school shooting at Perry High School. One time zone and several states away, I was innately concerned about students I’d never met in a community I’d never been to in a ...