by Sarah Green | Oct 22, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Researchers from the University of Chicago have determined that adding math to story time before bed can greatly improve children’s math performance. Specifically, they studying the effects of an app called Bedtime Math, which uses story problems to help engage kids...
by Sarah Green | Oct 20, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Across the United States, many students from kindergarten through high school face a single trial: The annual science fair project. It’s homework times ten: the students must come up with an idea and a hypothesis, design and run an experiment, and report on it...
by Sarah Green | Oct 16, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Over the last decade the cost of a college education has increased 45 percent. During that same time household incomes have fallen 7 percent. Families are facing a higher education funding crisis, and they don’t know how to fix it. Leaders in education, government,...
by Sarah Green | Oct 14, 2015 | Parent Issues
You want your child’s school to be perfect. It’s understandable. That’s your child going there, spending hours a day away from you in that institution, their future being shaped there day by day. And you’re a good parent; you want to do all you...
by Sarah Green | Oct 12, 2015 | News
It may come as a surprise to learn that pigeons are pretty smart. We certainly don’t think of them that way, and it’s safe to say that most people think of them as pests, but they’re smarter than the average bird, or a number of other animals, it seems. A recent study...
