by Sarah Green | Sep 19, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Football is a dangerous game, and society has started to pay a lot more attention to the injuries that can happen to players of that sport. The focus to this point has been largely on head injuries, and while those are certainly something to be concerned about, they...
by Sarah Green | Sep 16, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We’ve become increasingly aware in recent years that bullying is a serious problem faced by children throughout their lives, but that awareness has been focused on the elementary and high school years. According to a recent study appearing in the journal Social...
by Sarah Green | Sep 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues
It is a statistical truth that richer schools are given more money, in the US public school system. It’s a cycle of advantage—richer schools attract better, more experienced teachers, who require higher salaries and better facilities, which needs more money, which...
by Sarah Green | Sep 12, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Strictly speaking, Facebook doesn’t want anyone to have an account before the age of 13. Twitter, too. But there’s no one checking ID. Children today grow up with the internet as a presence they interact with all the time, omnipresent in home and school. Most...
by Sarah Green | Sep 7, 2016 | Student Issues
Cursive writing used to be a regular, expected part of early education. It was important before and well into the computer era, but in the last 20 years, it has gradually fallen out of sight. These days, if students are taught cursive at all, it’s as a weeks-long...
