Carolyn Foote

High School educator and "techno-librarian" with a passion for school change

As educators we aren't so great at telling our own stories. We need to learn to take responsibility for highlighting our profession more so that the stories that our schools abound with get told well.

William E. White

Royce R. & Kathryn M. Baker Vice President Productions, Publications, and Learning Ventures for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

I am fed up with teacher-bashing. It seems everyone is willing to belittle teachers. But these same critics are not willing to step forward and do the job themselves.

Michael Benson

President, Southern Utah University

By valuing, enhancing, and promoting the path of liberal arts, we thus make our country a more vibrant and richer place. As opposed to being degrees to nowhere, the liberal arts truly provide a portal to anywhere.

Yolanda Flores Niemann and Eric D. Packenham

Utah State University

Schools are imploding with the consequence of these changing demographics. Perhaps more than ever before in our nation's history, ensuring a quality education, and the contingencies thereof, is increasingly challenging.

Jake Rush

Jake Rush is a journalism student at the University of Utah.

Over 100 people packed into the multipurpose room at one of 721 Democratic caucus locations in Salt Lake County, a turnout exceeding even party officials' expectations. There were young voters, Latino voters, moms and dads with babies, and seniors.

Vicki Larson

Journalist, mother, thinker

Clearly there's a movement to get people -- with the help of teachers and counselors -- to think before marrying or divorcing. It sounds like a good idea, but do marriage prep courses work?