by Supporting Education | Aug 9, 2016 | Teacher Issues
In 2004, teaching degrees were awarded to 106,300 students in the US. Even then, that didn’t fill the need. But those numbers have since slipped even further. In 2014, only 98,900 education graduates crossed the boards, and the numbers have continued that...
by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Educational news often talks about student truancy as an epidemic, a growing threat to student progress. But there’s another kind of absenteeism doing its own quiet harm – teachers. In Nevada, it’s a serious and growing problem. According to a 2016 study...
by Sarah Green | Jul 20, 2016 | News, Other, Teacher Issues
Traditionally, the payment for a Hmong funerary musician, a txiv qeej (pronounced “tsee kheng”), is three ribs of the cow slaughtered for the funeral meals and a token payment, usually only enough to cover gas. There are a lot of traditions attached to the qeej, the...
by Sarah Green | Jun 22, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Video games have long caught flak from educators, but in recent years, there have been a lot of people talking about how video games could change education. There have been numerous attempts to “gamify” education by making certain aspects feel more like video games,...
by Sarah Green | Jun 21, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Marley Dias is only eleven, but she’s noticed something that slips right by many adults. Something about the books she reads for school. They’re not about her. She loves to read, but even at the age of ten, she was tired of reading books about white boys,...
