Opinion
Francis Koster: Schools do more than educate kids
By Dr. Francis Koster There is at least one metric of your local school system’s impact on your ... Read more
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Education
Francis Koster: Who are you trying to protect?
By Dr. Francis Koster Measles is recognized as one of the deadliest and infectious of diseases in the ... Read more
Education
Francis Koster: How Trump’s chainsaw cutting is going to hurt our kids
Dr. Francis Koster You already know that Trump has ordered the Federal Department of Education to be dissolved. ... Read more
Education
Op-ed: We have to make the invisible visible in North Carolina’s school systems
By Francis Koster, Ed.D. Almost all the public education systems in America receive the overwhelming majority of their ... Read more
Education
I heard of a great win-win-win
By Francis Koster, Ph.D For the Salisbury Post Our kids go to public schools where the state legislature ... Read more
Opinion
Is the inflation in your kid’s tummy worse than inflation in our economy?
By Dr. Francis Koster Adults need to begin to act on the fact that one out of every ... Read more
Opinion
Francis Koster: Kids can help other succeed during online learning
By Francis Koster A fierce, disorganized debate is raging as our country approaches the time schools traditionally open. Those ... Read more
Lifestyle
Helping your kids start a garden will manage coronavirus impact
By Francis Koster Ed. D. For the Salisbury Post If you look at a map of the six ... Read more
Opinion
Francis Koster: Clean school air is an investment opportunity
Experts are now certain that about half our nations’ schools have invisible problems with mold, dust, humidity, temperature ... Read more
Opinion
Francis Koster: How fixing schools can help solve America’s rising health care costs
Third in a four-part series One in five Americans works in or attends a K-12 school. If these ... Read more
Opinion
Francis Koster: Lack of pure air in schools causes students to score poorly
Second in a four-part series American schools rank in the bottom half of the world’s richest 35 countries. ... Read more
Columnists
Francis Koster: A surprising way to fix schools
First in a four-part series Locally, the school system of Rowan/Salisbury ranks in the bottom quarter of the ... Read more
Columnists
Francis Koster: What Trump got right about Norwegians
I want to support one of President Trump’s recent statements encouraging immigration by folks who carry the values ... Read more
Columnists
Francis Koster: We can reduce breast cancer by reducing pollution
By Francis Koster This is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here are some facts about breast cancer you may ... Read more
Guest columns
Francis Koster: No sense and non-cents
By Francis Koster At the same time all eyes are on the flood victims in Texas, some astounding ... Read more
Opinion
Paying for health care is a dollars and sense issue
It might surprise you to know that total annual health care spending in America is more than $10,000 ... Read more
Opinion
Francis Koster: This trend is going up and up
By Francis Koster Special to the Salisbury Post Pop Quiz: What does this graph show? A. The growth ... Read more
Columnists
Francis Koster: ‘Whole truth’ missing from column about teacher pay
By Francis Koster Special to the Salisbury Post Mr. John Hood’s column in the Aug. 16 Post (“Teacher ... Read more
Columnists
Francis Koster: Response to Duke on solar
By Francis Koster Special to the Post On Monday, April 18, Lynn Good, the president of Duke Energy ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: Breathing fresh air into schools
I know how to make sure local school kids score higher on statewide ranking tests — you do ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: Plastic is everywhere … even in your toothpaste
By Francis Koster www.theoptimisticfuturist.com If you buy a certain brand of toothpaste, it has little plastic pieces in it ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: Community solar gardens are an electrifying idea
One of my favorite statements by a corporate leader goes something like this: “If change outside of your ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: Climate change offers us a stark choice
By Francis Koster We have two decades to save life on Earth as we know it — and ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: How to stop climate change?
Local communities and major corporations both have an unrecognized chance to reverse the trends in climate change/global warming ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: Citizens take law into own hands
North Carolina citizens have access to new, low-cost weapons that can be used to protect families. Some people ... Read more
Opinion
Optimistic Futurist: Teaching about Earth Day in a polluted school
Since the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, America has become much healthier. According to the ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: As change speeds up, how will downtown look?
For many years, 14 smaller “mom and pop” stores died each time Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart opened a ... Read more
Columnists
Optimistic Futurist: School grading system deserves ‘F’
The State of North Carolina recently released the single letter grades for all of its schools. Headlines read ... Read more