by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Lincoln College, a small Illinois HBC founded the year its namesake was assassinated, will close this week, following a period of financial struggle capped by a ruinous cyberattack in 2021. 2019 was a record year for Lincoln College, with their highest ever enrollment...
by Beth Holmes | May 9, 2022 | News, Student Issues
A prosthetic arm controlled by your mind, invented by a teenager and made on an entry-level 3D printer. Benjamin Choi was in third grade when he watched a documentary about the then-cutting edge techniques scientists were beginning to use for bionic prostheses,...
by Beth Holmes | May 2, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Personal finance education should be a high school graduation requirement, says an educational survey. In March, the National Endowment for Financial Education conducted a survey of over a thousand adults, looking into what they felt school could have done better to...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 25, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Student borrowers are getting help, as the U.S. Department of Education cancels federally-held debt for 40,000 and offers help for over 3.5 million more. “Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s certainly felt that way for borrowers locked...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The University of Southern California has filed a lawsuit against two YouTubers who have been disrupting classes to film “prank” videos. Ernest Kanevsky and Yuguo Bai film non-consensual public pranks for posting on Youtube, with only around 100k subscribers. That...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 11, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Book bans are being considered in more and more red states in the wake of Florida’s passing of their educational censorship “Parental Rights in Education” bill. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas all have statewide rules to make it easy for...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 4, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Title IX rules will soon protect the rights of transgender students, say sources inside the Department of Education. Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or any educational program that uses federal funding. “No...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 1, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A million absent students in the 2020-21 school year have teachers concerned about the graduating classes for the next 12 years. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on a Gallup survey that targeted teachers in the U.S. In the survey, nearly half of all...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
San Francisco teachers are staging an overnight protest in their district office, and it will continue until they’re paid, they say. The San Francisco Unified School District migrated to a new payroll system in January, according to teachers. And since they...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Florida students walk out over the state’s proposed “Can’t Say Gay” bill, which passed in the the state senate on Tuesday morning. HB 1557, officially called the Parental Rights in Education bill, or the “Can’t Say Gay” bill by its opposers, passed...
