by Sarah Green | Oct 24, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
A recent study has found that unconscious racial bias may be impacting which children are suggested for special education or gifted programs. The researchers presented 70 third-grade teachers from 14 schools in a single district with a number of case files for...
by Sarah Green | Oct 21, 2016 | News, Profiles
Many of us have strong feelings for the schools that gave us the skills to succeed in our chosen fields. This is certainly true for graduates of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Several of them have stepped in to serve on their postgrad alma...
by Sarah Green | Oct 19, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Kinsey French is a bride like many others—beautiful, young, and preparing to be married before all of her friends and family. Her family is a little bigger than most. French is a teacher at Christian Acadamy’s Providence School in Louisville, Kentucky. For the past...
by Sarah Green | Oct 17, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While a growing majority of children in public education are students of color, about 80 percent of teachers are white. It’s important that teachers have connections to their students, and that connection is very much improved when a student has access to teachers who...
by Sarah Green | Oct 14, 2016 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
Today, Kamaria Downs is 23 and an elementary school teacher in Greenville, South Carolina. She is also the mother of a nearly-two-year-old daughter, Ryann. And she’s making a footprint on education in her state, though not in the way one might expect. Two years ago,...
