by Sarah Green | May 13, 2016 | News
Sumayya Master is a marketing major at Oakland University in Michigan. She’s also the president of the Muslim Student Association, and a hijabi. All of these together, she feels, gives her a duty. “I am tasked with the responsibility of showing people what Islam...
by Sarah Green | May 11, 2016 | News
Getting through school is hard, but it can be especially hard for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in communities with low representation. For these students, programs exist to make their time in school easier, like the Community Eligibility Provision, enacted...
by Sarah Green | May 6, 2016 | News, Parent Issues
According to a recent Indiana University study, parents who pay more attention to playtime with their infant children have kids with longer attention spans. Basically it works like this: when a child or other caregiver plays with an infant, the more they pay attention...
by Sarah Green | May 5, 2016 | News
The senior project is a common feature at American High School’s – like a science fair but broader and your graduation depends upon it. At tiny Sanborn Central School, seniors are obligated to come up with one such project. It’s graded as if it were a...
by Sarah Green | May 2, 2016 | News
For years, the received wisdom is that women should give birth earlier in their lives. There are a lot of reasons for this, many of them social, but there were medical justifications too. Children born to older women, say in their 40s, are more likely to have Down...
