by Sarah Green | Jan 4, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We all know that kids like to play video games. Whether it’s Pokémon Go or games played on social networks or through phone apps, we’ve raised a generation of game-loving children. While some may think this will lead to the end of society as we know it, research has...
by Sarah Green | Dec 9, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In the week following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, many high schools saw activist students walking out of classes to protest the election results. Between 1,500 and 2,000 students walked off the campus of Berkeley High School in...
by Sarah Green | Nov 28, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Tennessee Department of Education, along with 90 school districts in the state, is creating Read to Be Ready. This program is designed to train teachers in the best techniques for teaching literacy to young students. Tennessee has an acknowledged problem with...
by Sarah Green | Nov 21, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
A teacher at Baltimore’s Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School has been fired after she was caught on video screaming at a classroom full of middle school students and using a racial epithet. The school is mostly black, and the teacher is white. After yelling at a...
by Sarah Green | Nov 16, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
According to recent research by the Association of Psychological Science, students’ values can be linked to school climate, and in turn to the values of their principals. The study looked at 252 principals, 3,600 teachers, and 50,000 students in Israel and found that,...
