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First Lady Jill Biden Will Keep Her Day Job As an Educator

First Lady Jill Biden Will Keep Her Day Job As an Educator

by Supporting Education | Nov 23, 2020 | News

Jill Biden is not one to set her career aside for her husband’s, even though her husband is now President-Elect of the United States. For the eight years he was Vice President under President Obama, she never stopped teaching at Northern Virginia Community College,...
Who Will Be Joe Biden’s Secretary of Education?

Who Will Be Joe Biden’s Secretary of Education?

by Supporting Education | Nov 16, 2020 | News

One of the loudest grievances the country has had with Trump’s administration the past four years is his choice of Secretary of Education – Amway heiress Betsy DeVos. DeVos was outspoken before and during her appointment about her preference for private and charter...
Trump 1776 Commission to Ensure Public Education is “Patriotic” Enough

Trump 1776 Commission to Ensure Public Education is “Patriotic” Enough

by Supporting Education | Nov 9, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues

Moments before stepping on stage at a November 2 campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Trump posted to his Twitter feed: “Just signed an order to establish the 1776 Commission. We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore PATRIOTIC...
Study: Students of Color ‘Overdisciplined’ With Out-of-School Suspensions

Study: Students of Color ‘Overdisciplined’ With Out-of-School Suspensions

by Supporting Education | Nov 2, 2020 | News, Student Issues

In the 2015-16 school year, U.S. students missed over 11 million in-class days due to out-of-school suspensions according to a new report from the Center for Civil Right Remedies (CCRR). For context, approximately 50 million students optimally have access to 180...
Lower Brule Sioux Reservation School District Creates District-Wide Wireless Network

Lower Brule Sioux Reservation School District Creates District-Wide Wireless Network

by Supporting Education | Oct 26, 2020 | News, Student Issues

While schools try and fail to return to ordinary, face-to-face class-time due to the ongoing pandemic, online education continues to be the safest option. But issues such as lack of access to reliable computers and internet stand in the way of that being an equitable...
Project 10Million Provides Free Internet Access for Students

Project 10Million Provides Free Internet Access for Students

by Supporting Education | Oct 19, 2020 | News, Student Issues

In this strange new school year, more than 50 million U.S. children are learning remotely. And as many as a third of those, approximately 16 million, are thought to have inadequate access to either a usable computer, a reliable internet connection, or both, according...
On-Camera Education Can Be a Big Negative for Students

On-Camera Education Can Be a Big Negative for Students

by Supporting Education | Oct 12, 2020 | News, Student Issues

For many students in the U.S., the new school year comes with online classes, teleconferencing via Zoom, Discord, or other platforms. These online courses are the prudent choice, versus the disease risk of in-person education, but they come with their own stresses,...
Michigan Launches Futures for Frontliners Free Tuition Program

Michigan Launches Futures for Frontliners Free Tuition Program

by Supporting Education | Oct 5, 2020 | News

Calling front-line workers the “real heroes in the midst of this pandemic,” Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer announced on September 10, 2020, that the state would be funding a program to offer free college tuition for as many of those workers as possible. The...
Study: 176 Million COVID-19 Tests Per Month Needed for Safe School Reopening

Study: 176 Million COVID-19 Tests Per Month Needed for Safe School Reopening

by Supporting Education | Sep 28, 2020 | News, Student Issues

A study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by a team of researchers from the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University took a good look at how testing rates are affecting the impact of COVID-19 around the country, looking to find the optimal...
New York City Teachers Protest Start of In-Person Classes

New York City Teachers Protest Start of In-Person Classes

by Supporting Education | Sep 21, 2020 | News, Teacher Issues

New York City is the country’s largest school district, with more than 1.1 million students at 1,800 schools, taught by approximately 75,000 teachers. The schools alone hold more people than many substantial cities around the world. And they were supposed to go back...
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