by Sarah Green | Jan 20, 2017 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
By now videos and transcripts of Betsy DeVos’s education confirmation hearing have made the rounds, marking this as the first hearing to go viral on social media. The videos show DeVos unable to answer a variety of questions posed to her about guns in schools, federal...
by Sarah Green | Jan 18, 2017 | News
Exciting news for anyone who was a schoolchild in the mid-90s! The Magic School Bus will soon be back, once more to fire up interest in science among schoolchildren with funny curiosity-provoking adventures. The animated show aired originally on PBS from 1994 to 1999,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 16, 2017 | Student Issues
A recent study by faculty at Michigan State University has some pretty unsurprising information to share: students who use the internet during class, for non-academic purposes, have lower test scores in those classes. Students went shopping, checked social media,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 13, 2017 | News, Student Issues
It’s long been known that there is a large gap between well-paying, available technical jobs and high school graduates adequately trained for those jobs. Now an international bank and a coalition of state school officers think they have a solution. JPMorgan Chase and...
by Sarah Green | Jan 11, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A common topic in the discussion of educational reform is the issue of parent involvement. Traditionalists cite a past where parents taught their children the basics and the tenets of common sense while progressives tout the need for a more holistic educational...
