by Sarah Green | Jun 5, 2015 | News, Student Issues
The day she found out that she’d been accepted into a surgical residency at the University of California Riverside, Jennifer Chen got carded for her celebratory champagne toast. But she’s used to that. Chen, the youngest ever graduate from Florida...
by Sarah Green | May 29, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Suitably, the Little Free Library project started small. One man, Todd Boll, gave out a handful of little handcrafted wooden buildings, each about the size of a microwave, to his friends in 2009. Each one had a hand-painted sign advertising FREE BOOKS and that’s...
by Sarah Green | May 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While standardized tests aren’t fun, and some even debate the actual merit of having children take several standardized tests to measure academic success and potential, they are a necessary evil of the current academic system. Luckily, there are organizations that...
by Sarah Green | May 22, 2015 | News
The World Bank, a United Nations financial institute that works with developing countries, has pledged to spend $5 billion on education funding over the next five years. This is about twice as much as they spent over the last five years. The new program is a...
by Sarah Green | May 18, 2015 | News
If there is a spot of light in the devastating news out of Nepal since its two major earthquakes in April and May, it is that the first and larger of the quakes struck on a Saturday, when schools and offices in Nepal are almost universally closed. More than 8,000...
