by Sarah Green | Jan 9, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of the hardest things about getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is that they simply don’t have a lot of exposure to it beyond being users of technology. Girls in particular get shorted when it comes to STEM...
by Sarah Green | Jan 6, 2017 | News, Student Issues
2016 was a year that opened many white people’s eyes to the realities of racism in the United States. Eastern Michigan University has decided to learn from that and make concrete steps to address the issue. Working with black student leaders, they are implementing and...
by Sarah Green | Jan 4, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We all know that kids like to play video games. Whether it’s Pokémon Go or games played on social networks or through phone apps, we’ve raised a generation of game-loving children. While some may think this will lead to the end of society as we know it, research has...
by Sarah Green | Jan 2, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Early childhood education, for those familiar with it, is of immense value, but to many people, it doesn’t seem to work out that way. Quality early childhood programs are expensive, and budgets have to get cut somewhere, right? But the same people who might support...
by Sarah Green | Dec 28, 2016 | Student Issues
There has been a lot of discussion about fake news and how it may have affected the recent presidential election. From clickbait sites to deliberately misleading sites to satire sites, and sites that may spread fake news by accident, the impact of fake news is...
