by Sarah Green | Oct 14, 2016 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
Today, Kamaria Downs is 23 and an elementary school teacher in Greenville, South Carolina. She is also the mother of a nearly-two-year-old daughter, Ryann. And she’s making a footprint on education in her state, though not in the way one might expect. Two years ago,...
by Sarah Green | Oct 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For World Teacher Day, October 5, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) released the results of a worldwide survey of ongoing teacher shortages. The first survey on the topic of this scale, it isn’t encouraging anywhere, but the numbers in sub-Saharan Africa in...
by Sarah Green | Oct 10, 2016 | News, Student Issues
For kids with speech and language disorders, early intervention can make a world of difference. But according to research at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital, 60 percent of these children may not even be diagnosed until they’re in Kindergarten. Sometimes it...
by Sarah Green | Oct 7, 2016 | News, Student Issues
In recognition of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender student population, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, will stop referring to the Homecoming King and Homecoming Queen and call them Homecoming Royalty. Students in each grade...
by Sarah Green | Oct 5, 2016 | News, Student Issues
In the past, the City University of New York has offered to waive its $65 application fee for only the most needy of students. However, that still left the application fee as a substantial barrier for many other students who didn’t meet CUNY’s formerly stringent...
