by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Food safety is a hot topic in the news this winter, in the wake of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli presumed to be linked to romaine lettuce, and the nationwide caution against eating romaine coming from California. Every restaurant and grocery store around the...
by Supporting Education | Dec 19, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
If you grew up in the northern half of the United States and a snowstorm came, you may remember excitedly listening to the radio or checking text messages to see if school was cancelled that day. If one school district’s experiment is successful, though, instead of...
by Supporting Education | Dec 12, 2018 | News, Student Issues
“When colleges review applications, all but a few consider a student’s ability to pay. As a result, high-achieving applicants from low- and middle-income families are routinely denied seats that are saved for students whose families have deeper pockets. This hurts the...
by Supporting Education | Nov 28, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Samay Godika describes himself as a Boston native who now lives in India. He is 16 and a junior in the National Public School-Koramangala in Bengaluru, India. He made a video exploring the effects of circadian rhythms on medical treatments, and it has changed his...
by Supporting Education | Nov 21, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Injini is an education-technologies incubator, a sort of support system for startup businesses focused on new technologies and new teaching methods to suit the information age. Set in South Africa, the company trains, consults, and invests in new companies from...