by Sarah Green | Nov 8, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Recently, we wrote about the opportunities for students that participate in Moody’s Mega Math Challenge, and now are happy to report that the annual challenge is expanding to 17 more states! The competition, also known as the M3 Challenge, is a reminder to...
by Sarah Green | Nov 6, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of today’s hottest education topics is STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—programs. President Obama himself has said that the United States needs to focus more on science and math, and schools across the nation have begun adopting the STEM...
by Sarah Green | Nov 4, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
To an outsider, our world might look like one filled with fairytale magic: horseless carriages, handheld communication devices, and instant access to a world of information whenever we want it. Of course, to those of us living down here, it’s far from magical: it’s...
by Sarah Green | Oct 31, 2013 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
As dictated by federal labor laws and state minimum wage laws, it’s illegal for companies and organizations not to pay employees that provide work that has immediate benefit to said company/organization. In the land of education, where schools are the employers and...
by Sarah Green | Oct 30, 2013 | News, Teacher Issues
Stereotypes. What do you think of when you hear that word? I think of preconceptions of individuals based on a perceived group truth. I think of unfairly judging someone because you think some quality they possess automatically defines them as a person. I think, with...
