by Sarah Green | Jun 21, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Marley Dias is only eleven, but she’s noticed something that slips right by many adults. Something about the books she reads for school. They’re not about her. She loves to read, but even at the age of ten, she was tired of reading books about white boys,...
by Sarah Green | Jun 21, 2016 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
Summer break is here! That means it’s time to bring the classroom home and keep young minds active for the next few months. Here’s a quick scientific activity to spark curiosity and discussion in your own kitchen. This is a good one for kids around fifth...
by Sarah Green | Jun 19, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Thanks to research by scientists at INSERM in France, we now have a much better idea of why humans and our primate cousins are so capable of learning new behaviors that evolution couldn’t have prepared us for. Things like driving cars, writing code, or sitting in a...
by Sarah Green | Jun 17, 2016 | Student Issues
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has blazed a trail in online business education. They were the first business school to offer a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in 2013. To date, more than 2.7 million students from around the globe have enrolled in...
by Sarah Green | Jun 14, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
Back in mid-May, teacher Todd Friedman’s disciplinary action hit the news because of what it was regarding: He bought 102 copies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for his AP students out of his own pocket and sold them to students for $2 a piece, less than he...
