Author: Paul White

Paul D. White is a Reno resident and career educator whose program "Gangsters-to-Gardeners" won state and national awards. A two-time Educator-of-the-Year, he is the co-author of White's Rules - Saving Our Youth, One Kid at a Time (Random House) and The Stronghold School Student Handbook. He has written for The Washington Post, LA Daily News, LA Times, Education Week, The Ventura County Citizens Journal, Ventura County Star, Reno Gazette Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor.

4 Biggest Campaign Issues. 4 Bold, Immediate Solutions. Needed: Courageous Candidates to Implement Them.

Consider the dozens of challengers and incumbents running for elected offices state-wide. What do your favored candidates really know – or care about Nevada’s 4 most important issues and how to solve them? Almost nothing, in most cases. If it were not so, candidates would be speaking constantly about these issues and how...
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OPINION: Southern Schools: Worst to First for 2 Reasons . . . ACADEMIC ACCOUNTABILITY and DISCIPLINE

Public education’s hottest topic is what’s known as the “Southern Surge.”  The term describes the best-in-the-nation academic progress being made for the past 5-10 years by schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and other southern states.    Historically, most schools in those states have been bottom-dwellers or close to it...
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OPINION: Aligning with “Christmas Story” Values Would Improve Washoe County’s Defective Schools

The story of Mary and Joseph’s trip to Bethlehem and Jesus’ birth, contain a timeless message for everyone, including the Washoe County School District. The underlying values in the Nativity story have an application that far exceeds their traditional one-day commemoration on December 25. All WCSD employees need to consider the...
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OPINION: Pornographic Books & Curriculum: The “Whited Sepulchres” of Washoe County Public Schools.

Warning: Adult Content “Whited Sepulchres” is an ancient biblical simile used over 2,000 years ago by Jesus Christ. The term derives from an ancient practice of the priests that was used to intentionally mislead their communities. Tombs, also known as “sepulchres,” were considered unclean. They were whitewashed on the outside...
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