Ali is blogging from Chile this semester as a study abroad student with the University of Utah. A Spanish-language version of her post appears below the English-language version. Higher education is at a crossroads. In Utah, and throughout all of the United States, there is an open debate about how to value education. Should education
It’s not that we’re attention starved in Utah. In fact, we frequently get kudos for our stunning natural habitat, our gainfully employed workforce, and our attractiveness to technology companies. But for some state legislators it isn’t enough to receive accolades for our varied accomplishments, we need attention for our crazy moments, too. Senator Aaron Osmond’s
Last week Senator Aaron Osmond wrote a post on the Utah Senate website arguing for the end of compulsory education in Utah. He focuses on the need to return the responsibility and right of educating children to parents: First, we need to restore the expectation that parents are primarily responsible for the educational success of
For the past two weeks I have been in Washington DC with a group of like-minded students learning the ins and outs of politics and our nation’s capital. We were from all over the country, from blue states and red states. One night we decided to have a competition to see whose state was more
“Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” – Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani education activist that survived a Taliban attack last October, is the courageous face of
Independence Day has been an important American Holiday for hundreds of years. But it didn’t get really interesting as a federal holiday until 1826, the Jubilee year of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. That 50 year celebration was accentuated for the young nation by the deaths, within hours of each other, of two
We all have seen it. We all have heard it. We all have gasped, laughed and been utterly shocked by Miss Utah’s answer at the Miss USA Pageant last weekend. Here it is in case you haven’t. “I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are continuing to try to strive
Salt Lake City – A new report released this morning by the Alliance for a Better UTAH and its partners details the damaging influence the corporate lobbying group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has had on public education policy across the country. The report, ALEC v Kids, documents the growing footprint that ALEC has in
Education has lost out recently in attention to gun rights, the attorney general, and air quality, but during the legislative session the biggest question is typically education funding. This is a question–along with other questions concerning sex education, the common core, scholarship standards, and prioritizing STEM fields–where students are largely left out. With the end
Neah Bois is a high school sophomore at Waterford School and one of Better UTAH’s student bloggers this summer. She’ll be posting regularly about how policies affect her as a young Utahn. This is her first blog post. —– AP tests, The Education System and the Unknown Student I recently got the opportunity to take
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