by Sarah Green | Oct 24, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
When people talk about teaching positive consent to children, there is often a lot of reluctance. Many people link the topic inextricably to sex, and therefore assume it’s inappropriate in a third-grade classroom. But Liz Kleinrock, who teaches 8- and 9-year-olds at...
by Sarah Green | Jul 11, 2018 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is a great deal to be learned inside a virtual lab environment. Students can access real research while trying to recreate the experiments that generated it. Teachers can model the scientific process or design custom programs for their students to theorize,...
by Sarah Green | Jul 4, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Fifteen years ago, Ricky Arnold was a middle school science teacher with an incurable wanderlust. His career as a teacher took him from Maryland to the Middle East to the islands of the Pacific. But even that wasn’t enough. In 2006, Arnold completed Astronaut...
by Sarah Green | Jun 27, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“A community without a school…is a vacant community,” Verónica Dávila, a second-grade teacher at a rural Puerto Rico school, told Vox. “It’s actually a dead community.” Puerto Rico’s educational crisis hardly began with Hurricane Maria, but the weather catastrophe has...
by Sarah Green | May 30, 2018 | Teacher Issues
Tuesday, May 8, was Teacher Appreciation Day here in the U.S. If you missed it, don’t feel too bad. It doesn’t get a lot of hype. There are no commercials, no sales, no ad space dedicated to it. A few restaurants offer discounts, and principals usually bring in donuts...
