by Sarah Green | Apr 12, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Researchers at King’s College London have developed a technique to predict the ability of children to learn to read based on their genetics. They found that certain parts of the DNA align with reading performance, and after comparing the genes of students in the Twins...
by Sarah Green | Apr 10, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Salads are healthy when they’re prepared well, but even a salad with too much dressing is probably healthier than pizza, right? With that in mind, an initiative called Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools has been working to get more salad bars into primary and secondary...
by Sarah Green | Apr 7, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Here’s some good news for students who were attending classes at a school that suddenly closed: the Department of Education has announced that their Pell Grant eligibility will be restored. The department is going to email Pell Grant recipients who went to for-profit...
by Sarah Green | Apr 5, 2017 | News, Student Issues
All across the nation, students are running help desks at their high schools. And they’re doing so for class credit. It all started in 2011, when Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts, rolled out over 1,000 iPad tablets for student and teacher use....
by Sarah Green | Apr 3, 2017 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Students everywhere have wondered, at some point, why they had to learn about some subject. It is perhaps more common in high schools and colleges, especially in general education courses. Why should one learn about American history when they want to study packaging...
