by Supporting Education | Jul 12, 2019 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is a discrepancy in the numbers that come out of rural schools. They have higher graduation rates than urban schools (80 percent vs. 68 percent), but graduates of rural schools are less likely to go to college or finish their degrees. The numbers suggest that...
by Supporting Education | Jul 5, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Every vehicle on the road requires seat belts, except for buses. It feels like an accident of lawmaking: the highest-density vehicles don’t require their 15 to 75 passengers to be restrained, including school buses carrying children as young as 4. School bus accidents...
by Supporting Education | Jul 1, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In Twin Falls, Idaho, a middling-sized city towards the South edge of the state, yogurt company Chobani operates a plant that added about 7,000 jobs to the area when they moved in in late 2012. That’s more than a tenth of the city’s population, and the plant is the...
by Supporting Education | Jun 24, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Occasionally in school, behavioral issues require students to be restrained or separated for the safety of themselves or others. The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education requires schools to report each time this happens, since restraint and...
by Supporting Education | Jun 14, 2019 | Student Issues
In 2016, a team from Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) in Massachusetts met at nearby Josiah Quincy Upper School (JQUS), a public high school, to give health and hygiene talks tailored to the school’s special needs students. Afterwards, school personnel...
