In early September, teachers in one of the nation’s largest school districts “walked-out,” leaving around 400,000 Chicago kids either out of school or in very costly temporary programs. The primary...

The philosopher Elbert Hubbard once said, “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.” Hubbard was absolutely right. A teacher’s goals should be to teach students...

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” -E.M. Forster One quality that has been instilled in our society is to systematically...

Ohio has over 170 hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells. These wells have the potential to establish a renewable supply of natural gas and create jobs. However, gas drilling has been criticized for...

Writing about the Republican primaries is like trying to pin wet spaghetti to a wall. Practically every time you blink, a new candidate surges to the fore. At this point, we’ve been through a dizzying...

Al-Shabab is a militant Islamist group from Somalia. The chaos in Somalia has allowed the group to gain power and become increasingly violent. In the last few months, Al-Shabab militants have been blamed...

Words.. If only I could be half as good as Joel Freimark was in selecting words during his presentation at the Leadership Conference. If I were that good with words, just maybe I would be able to sum up...

I hear BHS students complain a lot. They don’t like school for a lot of reasons: the tardy policy, the amount of homework assigned and the fairness of grading. Having attended school in Korea as well...

The  October edition of the Beachcomber took a lot of work from both editors and staff to complete- and to be honest, it's just about as awesome as awesome gets.  Some of the big stories include: A...

Steve Jobs, a catalyst of the personal computing industry, who has left an immeasurable dent on the hull of modern human society, died yesterday at the age of 56. Throughout his lifetime, Jobs has made...