by Sarah Green | Apr 13, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Facebook, while an outlier in terms of scale, is just one example of the boom of entrepreneurship among college students. Mark Zuckerberg was a freshman when he launched thefacebook.com in 2004, and now he is one of the 100 wealthiest people in the world. Facebook...
by Sarah Green | Apr 2, 2016 | News
In a political climate that seems to confuse the right to discriminate with the right to religious freedom, it’s easy to feel tired of hearing that phrase come up in the news. But the Department of Justice, together with the Department of Education, is making a...
by Sarah Green | Mar 31, 2016 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A recent study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing has found that kindergartners who are “behind in social-behavioral development” are more likely to have problems later in school. These problems include being held back, requiring individualized...
by Sarah Green | Mar 30, 2016 | News, Student Issues
According to a University of Saskatchewan accounting professor, making things easy for students doesn’t help them learn as much as making things difficult. Specifically, Fred Phillips, who has been teaching at the Edwards School of Business for 20 years, found that...
by Sarah Green | Mar 24, 2016 | News
According to a new study, students develop better decision making skills when they learn in groups. The study in question had some fifth graders work in groups over a six-week curriculum in which the explored the question of whether or not a community should hire...
