by Sarah Green | May 19, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Across colleges around the United States, students have been proposing ‘trigger warnings’ for the materials they will be reading, watching and/or discussing. A ‘trigger warning’ is an alert on explicit materials that may upset some students. These can include scenes...
by Sarah Green | May 16, 2014 | News
This past Saturday, the 2014 graduating class of UC Berkeley School of Law was given speeches by two successful litigators: Ted Olson and David Boies, the pair who took on the daunting task of battling Proposition 8—California’s ban on same-sex marriage—all the way to...
by Sarah Green | May 7, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
This week is National Charter School Week, but a disturbing new report reveals how some charter schools are taking advantage of a poorly regulated educational business. Besides other troubling issues surrounding charter schools, such as poor overall performance,...
by Sarah Green | May 5, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Byron Court in London is a primary school where diversity is truly embraced. Iraq, Somalia, India, Nepal, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus, just to name a few, are where many of the students from that now attend the school. Many of the children speak little to no English,...
by Supporting Education | Apr 30, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
According to a new report, U.S. high school graduation rates hit 80% for the first time ever. Looking at statistics pooled nationally, the rate has risen 1.3% every year since 2006. Looking forward, the country is projected to his 90% by the year 2020, meeting the...
