by Beth Holmes | Jul 22, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Teaching skills took a decline during the pandemic, according to a report by an education think tank from Arizona State University. The 2022-2023 school year was considered the first ‘normal’ year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, restoring a few...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 10, 2023 | News, Other
Conservative censorship expanded further this weekend with several more states enacting laws limiting free speech in schools and libraries. In Iowa, a new law was enacted Saturday that prohibits public and charter schools from discussing gender identity or sexual...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 3, 2023 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Transitioning students will face new roadblocks in UK schools under the dictates of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. On Sunday, video surfaced of Sunak publicly making derogatory jokes about men who support trans women, saying that doing so makes them unfit to lead the...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 29, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Justice Alito, Jr. may have taken expensive gifts from Paul Singer, a billionaire currently fighting for the Supreme Court to block student-loan forgiveness. In 2008, Washington D.C. was beginning to (very casually) toss around the idea of student-loan forgiveness...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 19, 2023 | News, Parent Issues
Avoiding the summer slide takes parental involvement, teachers say. Here are some of their tips. According to teachers, the long summer break often leads to a breakdown of skills learned over the past year, the so-called “summer slide.” It can set students back when...
