Measuring student achievement in Kansas schools
Editorial urges KS to pursue a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind and adopt a growth model focused on progress rather than rigid targets. It notes USD 457 in Garden City reached AYP, with reading and math gains, but argues NCLB’s one size fits all approach narrows curricula and harms differentiation.
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Quotes spark debate on immigration and labor legality
Readers respond to a story about a strict Alabama immigration law. Online comments on GCTelegram.com discuss who works in poultry and beef plants, with claims that legal citizens line up for those jobs. The same edition features Donelda Lalicker praising work with children at a United Way funded day care agency.
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Steve Jobs
Jobs
Pixar Animation Studios
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Letters Policy From The Telegram Reader Guidelines
The Telegram invites signed letters to the editor with address and phone for confirmation. Letters may be edited for libel and length and must stay under 500 words. General thank you notes and form letters will not be printed. send to Attn Editor Garden City Kansas.
The Value of Failure in My Lifes Lessons
Kathleen Parker argues failure fuels growth from Jobs to JK Rowling. She warns that fear of failure breeds overparenting and entitlement, harming youth and national competitiveness, urging acceptance of failure as growth fuel.
Nostalgia for the old newsroom and the fall of papers
In a reflective piece Donald Kaul recalls the Des Moines Register era of crowded desks rotary phones and a wall between news and business segments. He traces the rise of newspaper chains the 2000 merger of Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times and the decline of journalism due to profit focus and massive staff cuts.
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Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer sparks patriotic surge
A critical column notes Obama awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, highlighting veterans' return home, government neglect of war trauma, and ongoing veteran suffering from PTSD, Gulf War syndrome, and addiction amid policy moves to trim benefits. It cites William A. Collins of Veterans For Peace.
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