Last Saturday I was greatly honored to be a guest speaker at the first statewide event sponsored by No Left Turn in Education - Kentucky.
NLTE-KY is the state chapter of a national organization dedicated to fighting against leftist ind...
Education history was made in Kentucky earlier this year when the state legislature passed - over the expected veto of Gov. Andy Beshear - one of the nation's most expansive school choice laws. But now the education establishment, in a l...

Last night I was a guest on KET's Kentucky Tonight program talking about critical race theory and its place in Kentucky
schools. Fellow guests included Rep. Joe Fischer, who recently introduced legislation that would restrict teaching c...
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I've created this page to catalog my publications, including peer-reviewed research, essays, opinion pieces, and other writing.
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Houchens, G. W. (2022). [Review of the book COVID-19 and the class...
As an idealist and reformer, I'm never one to give up the fight for a good cause until I feel I've done everything in my power. For the last two months I've devoted a considerable amount of energy to resisting Gov. Andy Beshear's illegal...
Continue reading "Some final (for now), personal reflections about the Kentucky Board of Education" »
Today Governor Andy Beshear issued an executive order attempting to remove the existing members of the Kentucky Board of Education. Ten board members are taking legal action to challenge this executive order. I am serving as spokesperson...
Comment by Paula K on “Kentucky Board of Education statement on executive order”
Posted by: Paula K | 12/11/2019 at 11:57 AM