By Francis Koster A fierce, disorganized debate is raging as our country approaches the time schools traditionally open. Those fearful of millions more citizens suffering lifelong ...
By Francis Koster Ed. D. For the Salisbury Post If you look at a map of the six states that have now closed all their ...
Experts are now certain that about half our nations’ schools have invisible problems with mold, dust, humidity, temperature and lack of fresh air in classrooms ...
Third in a four-part series One in five Americans works in or attends a K-12 school. If these schools were to adopt some existing but ...
Second in a four-part series American schools rank in the bottom half of the world’s richest 35 countries. Of school ranking among the 50 states, ...
First in a four-part series Locally, the school system of Rowan/Salisbury ranks in the bottom quarter of the school systems in the state that ranks ...
I want to support one of President Trump’s recent statements encouraging immigration by folks who carry the values of Norway. He is right — it ...
By Francis Koster This is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here are some facts about breast cancer you may not know. Sadly, around 40,000 women die ...
By Francis Koster At the same time all eyes are on the flood victims in Texas, some astounding and deeply upsetting proposals are floating around ...
It might surprise you to know that total annual health care spending in America is more than $10,000 for every man, woman, and child. This ...
By Francis Koster Special to the Salisbury Post Pop Quiz: What does this graph show? A. The growth in debt of the State of North ...
By Francis Koster Special to the Salisbury Post Mr. John Hood’s column in the Aug. 16 Post (“Teacher pay increase pilot programs get tested”) talked ...
By Francis Koster Special to the Post On Monday, April 18, Lynn Good, the president of Duke Energy released an article she wrote called “Solving ...
I know how to make sure local school kids score higher on statewide ranking tests — you do it by letting the students breathe clean ...
By Francis Koster www.theoptimisticfuturist.com If you buy a certain brand of toothpaste, it has little plastic pieces in it — put there on purpose. Really. It ...
One of my favorite statements by a corporate leader goes something like this: “If change outside of your organization is happening faster than change on ...
By Francis Koster We have two decades to save life on Earth as we know it — and I am not kidding. About 150 years ...
Local communities and major corporations both have an unrecognized chance to reverse the trends in climate change/global warming dramatically. This opportunity exists because, according to ...
North Carolina citizens have access to new, low-cost weapons that can be used to protect families. Some people who want to use these weapons are ...
Since the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, America has become much healthier. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, our average ...
For many years, 14 smaller “mom and pop” stores died each time Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart opened a new store. Between 1962 and 2013 alone, ...
The State of North Carolina recently released the single letter grades for all of its schools. Headlines read “Local Primary School gets a D.” The ...
If someone invited you to compete for a prize of $1,000 to quickly create a method to identify poor people by looking at them, you ...
We have a situation. Leaking natural gas (methane) is one of the most climate-changing gasses we dump into our atmosphere. In some places it is ...
As we struggle to create a better future for our kids and their kids, sometimes it helps to take a breath and put things in ...
What is the difference in the meaning between “power” and “influence”? How does that difference play out in improving society in ways we can be ...
For the next two minutes or so reading time, I intend to shock you with information, increase your anxiety about the future of our society, ...
A few weeks ago, a courteous 20-something young man knocked on my door and asked whether I had any yard work he could do to ...