by Sarah Green | Jan 16, 2017 | Student Issues
A recent study by faculty at Michigan State University has some pretty unsurprising information to share: students who use the internet during class, for non-academic purposes, have lower test scores in those classes. Students went shopping, checked social media,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 13, 2017 | News, Student Issues
It’s long been known that there is a large gap between well-paying, available technical jobs and high school graduates adequately trained for those jobs. Now an international bank and a coalition of state school officers think they have a solution. JPMorgan Chase and...
by Sarah Green | Jan 11, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A common topic in the discussion of educational reform is the issue of parent involvement. Traditionalists cite a past where parents taught their children the basics and the tenets of common sense while progressives tout the need for a more holistic educational...
by Sarah Green | Jan 9, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of the hardest things about getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is that they simply don’t have a lot of exposure to it beyond being users of technology. Girls in particular get shorted when it comes to STEM...
by Sarah Green | Jan 6, 2017 | News, Student Issues
2016 was a year that opened many white people’s eyes to the realities of racism in the United States. Eastern Michigan University has decided to learn from that and make concrete steps to address the issue. Working with black student leaders, they are implementing and...
