by Sarah Green | Jan 7, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Within the space of several weeks, two things happened in Dent County, Missouri: First, the town lowered flags to half-mast in mourning over the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationally. Second, Jacob Wilson, a native of the town and an...
by Sarah Green | Dec 30, 2015 | News, Student Issues
China is changing the way it educates students, or at least, it’s investigating different paths and tweaking some of the ways it does things. The biggest move is one that steps away from the reliance on gaokao, the national exams to determine who gets into college....
by Sarah Green | Dec 28, 2015 | Student Issues
Arabic is spoken in twenty countries across two continents by over 400 million people, more than five percent of the world’s population. It is #6 in the top ten list by percentages. In the United States, there are more than a million Arabic speakers and it is...
by Sarah Green | Dec 21, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is urging New York governor Andrew Cuomo to raise salaries for professors at the City University of New York, who have gone without a pay increase since 2010, despite the rising cost of simply existing in New York. In a letter to...
by Sarah Green | Dec 17, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Sports are a favorite pastime in America, and they engage people of all ages, abilities, genders, regions, and income brackets. People play sports, watch sports, talk about sports, collect sports memorabilia, gamble on sports, and follow their favorite sports stars....
