by Sarah Green | Nov 9, 2015 | News, Student Issues
A recent study in Norway has found that schools with larger populations of immigrant students do not have lower graduation rates for ethnically Norwegian students. And for immigrant children, higher populations of immigrant students generally means a slight...
by Sarah Green | Nov 6, 2015 | News
When girls enter school they often encounter a system that is biased against them. It’s not uncommon for young women to feel unsupported when they enroll in subjects related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). These are the subjects being used to...
by Sarah Green | Nov 4, 2015 | News, Student Issues
The children of today’s Yemen have never known peace. Since the modern republic of Yemen was formed in 1990, the infant country has been caught between neighboring superpowers, internal corruption, and competing interests within. For the last four years, that...
by Sarah Green | Nov 2, 2015 | News, Student Issues
According to a study by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there are nearly 50,000 homeless veterans living in America, almost ten percent of the country’s total homeless population. They are an unacceptable consequence of the ways in which safety nets...
by Sarah Green | Oct 30, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Purdue University is proud of their School of Engineering (which has brought the world big names like Wayne Hale, Keith Krach, Stephen Bechtel Jr., and Games Slayter). And that’s exactly why the school is launching a new study that aims to make the field of...
