by Sarah Green | Oct 18, 2017 | Teacher Issues
A lot of the dialogue around teacher shortages revolves around urban areas—and particularly, poor urban areas. But the teacher shortage is affecting rural America, too, especially in the South. Rural areas face some unique challenges as compared to urban ones, and...
by Sarah Green | Oct 4, 2017 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Hurricanes Irma and Maria aren’t the only forces closing schools in embattled Puerto Rico. Out of the island’s 1,460 public schools, approximately 400 were destroyed by the storms and surge and an additional 600 remain without power. And months before this, in May of...
by Jana Hoff | Aug 23, 2017 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Technology has been moving fast in the past few years. New developments have opened avenues for teaching and learning that weren’t possible less than a decade ago. Technology that started out merely as time-wasters and distractions are now being used to enhance the...
by Sarah Green | Jul 5, 2017 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In a recent poll conducted by the Hart Research Associates for the American Federation of Teachers, nearly half of the people who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election oppose his education agenda. The poll is based on online interviews conducted from June 3 to...
by Sarah Green | Jun 21, 2017 | Teacher Issues
Teaching can be a difficult job. You have to work with kids and sort out their myriad educational and social issues, teach lessons, grade papers, deal with the pressure from administrators and parents, then come home and prepare for the next day’s class work. Teaching...
