by Supporting Education | Sep 21, 2020 | News, Teacher Issues
New York City is the country’s largest school district, with more than 1.1 million students at 1,800 schools, taught by approximately 75,000 teachers. The schools alone hold more people than many substantial cities around the world. And they were supposed to go back...
by Supporting Education | Sep 14, 2020 | News, Student Issues
With exceptions, most of the United States’ over 50 million public school students have returned to “class” in front of a screen this autumn. For some, school via group chat is just fine, but many parents are concerned that their students aren’t well-suited to the...
by Supporting Education | Sep 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated half a billion people—nearly a third of the population of the planet at the time—and killed between 17 and 50 million, including between 500,000 and 850,000 Americans (the wide variances in numbers are due to...
by Supporting Education | Aug 31, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the beginning of July, Princeton University laid out plans for a revolving return to on-campus classes, focused around keeping the student body small enough to remain safely socially distanced all the way through the 2020-2021 school year. Freshmen and juniors were...
by Supporting Education | Aug 24, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Anyone interested in the study of literacy knows that early access means a lifelong boost to children’s reading abilities, including fluency and comprehension. Decades of studies support this. But perhaps for the first time, a study has been done into the means of...
by Supporting Education | Aug 17, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“The emergency remote learning that took place as a result of COVID-19 school closures brought to light disparities in our school communities that made student learning difficult in the pandemic environment,” said South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly...
by Supporting Education | Aug 10, 2020 | News, Student Issues
As the COVID-19 crisis gathered momentum in the spring, colleges and universities around the United States moved to remote learning. The measure was absolutely necessary to protect the public, but it left most students disappointed with the quality of the online-only...
by Supporting Education | Aug 3, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Colleges, with their high-density housing, crowded cafeterias, and thousands of students spending their days in classrooms where social distancing is all but impossible, are a hot spot for all sorts of communicable diseases. With COVID-19 cases spiking in the United...
by Supporting Education | Jul 27, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Iconic company Crayola has released a 24-pack of crayons in its widest array of skin tones yet. Not just shades of brown and tan, but colors chosen to represent actual skin colors found around the world. The set, titled Colors of the World, sells for $2.49 on the...
by Supporting Education | Jul 20, 2020 | News
The fight has been going on since 2015, when Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a suit against the Department of Education to cease collection on the student loans paid out to Everest Institute on behalf of 7,200 students, in light of the Institute’s...
