by Sarah Green | Jun 19, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Thanks to research by scientists at INSERM in France, we now have a much better idea of why humans and our primate cousins are so capable of learning new behaviors that evolution couldn’t have prepared us for. Things like driving cars, writing code, or sitting in a...
by Sarah Green | Jun 14, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
Back in mid-May, teacher Todd Friedman’s disciplinary action hit the news because of what it was regarding: He bought 102 copies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for his AP students out of his own pocket and sold them to students for $2 a piece, less than he...
by Sarah Green | Jan 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Babysitting cats and doing students’ laundry are not the usual duties of a teacher, but very little is usual in the city of Garland, Texas right now. The day after Christmas, nine tornadoes whipped across North Texas. One plowed right through the city,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 11, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
People have been fighting against the teaching of evolution for years, most notably since the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925. Since then, there have been a number of legal challenges to teaching science in classrooms, especially since the advent of “Intelligent Design”...
by Sarah Green | Dec 21, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is urging New York governor Andrew Cuomo to raise salaries for professors at the City University of New York, who have gone without a pay increase since 2010, despite the rising cost of simply existing in New York. In a letter to...
