by Supporting Education | Nov 14, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Washington State is heavily invested in improving educational equity, and has been for some time. Two of the state’s student aid programs are among the best in the nation: the College Bound Scholarship, which offers tuition aid for every student who maintains a 2.0...
by Supporting Education | Aug 15, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Derrick Rose, the 29-year-old basketball player who was the youngest ever to earn the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award all the way back in 2011, has had a very successful career. And he is as dedicated to paying his success forward as he is to playing his sport. In...
by Supporting Education | Mar 24, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Sudan’s second civil war was a quarter of a century ago, but refugees from that conflict still live in a Kenyan refugee camp called Kakuma. Occupied continually since 1992, Kakuma refugee camp now holds around 200,000 refugees from 20 African countries, which makes it...
by Supporting Education | Aug 15, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Early childhood education can be difficult, as teachers are tasked with not only getting kids started in academic subjects, but teaching them to socialize with one another and with adults outside of their immediate families. That can be stressful for teachers,...
by Supporting Education | Aug 15, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Racism is bad for mental health. While a number of studies have shown that people subjected to racist attacks tend to have higher instances of mental health problems than people who do not, a new study from the United Kingdom has shown how repeated racist attacks...
