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My daughter asked how I’ll pay for her college degree. I’m still paying for mine.

Unlike loans, you don’t have to pay grants back. While scholarships are often merit-based, grants like the the one I received are typically awarded on financial need.

Artificial Intelligence in Idaho classrooms: friend or foe?

It’s not hard to believe that we’re headed to a future where employers will expect competitive applicants to have experience with AI.

Congress could expand education choice options too

If more of Idaho’s lawmakers in Boise and Washington focus on the right priorities — children and parents —then education choice will be understood as an obvious benefit.

The Ten Commandments may soon be coming to Idaho public schools

The extremists understand the power of demagoguing culture war issues and won’t be able to resist trying to scare up votes with this one.

‘Chocolate milk and cereal’: Eating healthy isn’t just our family’s struggle

The U.S. diet is worse than bad — it’s deadly, a 2022 NPR article explained.

Dorothy Moon is fueling efforts to detoxify Idaho’s Republican Party

Moon is well aware that she and her branch of the GOP will be history if every Idaho voter can have a say in who gets elected to office.

Our 10-year-old just made me think twice about filling up her summer schedule

A Dad’s Diary: It’s important for active families to know that you can over-schedule your kids, to have an ongoing dialogue and to watch for signs that they are overdoing it.

A serious case of mistaken identity among Idaho’s three political parties

The governor should train his ire on the real source of his problem as opposed to targeting Democrats who have tried to cooperate with him on a variety of policy objectives.