by Sarah Green | Dec 17, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Sports are a favorite pastime in America, and they engage people of all ages, abilities, genders, regions, and income brackets. People play sports, watch sports, talk about sports, collect sports memorabilia, gamble on sports, and follow their favorite sports stars....
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Late in the evening on Wednesday, November 2, the House of Representatives approved the Every Child Succeeds Act, a broadly sweeping bill to revise (or outright replace) the unpopular No Child Left Behind law. Key in the revisions is the end of aggressive federal...
by Sarah Green | Dec 10, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Greenwich Academy is an educational institution empowered to support innovative programs through inspired leadership received from administrators, faculty, and volunteers from the financial community, like Rene Kern, Managing Director of General Atlantic, who sits on...
by Sarah Green | Dec 2, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
In 2011, the US Department of Education hung out a Help Wanted sign for teachers in science, technology, engineering and math, and any related field. At the time, they were looking to fill 100,000 positions, nationwide. A hundred thousand open positions. A hundred...
by Sarah Green | Nov 12, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
According to a recent study performed by a graduate student in Sweden, most educational software isn’t actually helping students. Björn Sjöden, who led the study, claims that only about 17% of math and Swedish teaching software, out of the top 100 apps in those...
