by Supporting Education | Oct 12, 2012 | News
What’s missing from education in America? Seems like a rather broad question with innumerable answers. But perhaps all of them can be summed into one: what’s missing from classrooms is, in fact, all that lies outside classrooms. And students? Well we’ve been...
by Supporting Education | Oct 8, 2012 | Profiles
In the past year alone 76,000 refugees fled persecution or threat of persecution in their home countries and were admitted to the U.S. It is estimated that about 45% of the world’s refugees are under the age of 18. This means that every year a significant number of...
by Supporting Education | Oct 8, 2012 | News
As I was reading the New York Times over coffee, the article Professor Is Named to Public Housing Board caught my attention; it isn’t every day when you hear about a professor, such as Emily Youssouf of NYU, taking on such a big leadership role. Taking a look at Emily...
by Supporting Education | Oct 4, 2012 | News
Recent in debate is the hot topic of teacher evaluations. According to the article, Education Nation: Teachers wary of new evaluations in aftermath of Chicago strike, results of a poll during a teacher town hall hosted by Education Nation found that 72 percent of...
by Supporting Education | Oct 1, 2012 | News
The power of technology in supporting education proves itself once again in a challenge put on by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The competition is called the College Knowledge Challenge and the award is a whopping $2.5 million worth of prizes. So what is this...
