Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson has been involved in public education for more than three decades.
He spent for 19 years as a high school and community college English teacher before becoming a high school administrator and the principal of Oregon High School. Now he's back in the classroom.
Andrew has earned degrees from both the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and the University of Wisconsin at Platteville.
He lives in the stateline area with his wife, Wendy; they have three daughters.
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Think you know George Washington? Andrew Nelson encourages you to dig deeper. Check out his reading list at the end of today's Perspective. -
It’s one thing to be an unpalatable, unhinged and ill-educated human being, says Andrew Nelson. But it’s another thing to vote for such a human being.
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Andrew Nelson says America still needs workers — and not necssarily the kind holding a four-year-degree.
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Andrew Nelson asks, "If most adults would not want to return to their youth, why are some of those adults now targeting the most vulnerable kids in our midst?"
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Andrew Nelson tries to teach kids an important lesson about responsibility but keeps running into reality.
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The Civil War, World War II, and today: Andrew Nelson says they are points in history where we have come close to losing our democratic republic of the United States of America.
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The teacher shortage is at crisis levels — and Andrew Nelson says treating teachers like "thought criminals" is only making things worse.
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Andrew Nelson tells politicians where to go, if they invoke comparisons to a horrific time in human history.
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The plague, the 1918 flu, smallpox — We can learn a lot about our future from our past. Andrew Nelson has a modest proposal...
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Who's to blame for the ongoing pandemic? Andrew Nelson explains that it's a lot more complicated than you think.
