by Supporting Education | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the United Kingdom, current guidance requires that schools serve food including dairy with each meal, meat or poultry at least three days out of every five-day week, and oily fish (such as salmon or herring) at least once every fifteen days. This guidance is called...
by Supporting Education | Jul 10, 2020 | News
The Wake County Board of Education in Raleigh, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to rename Daniels Middle School to Oberlin Middle School, after a local historically Black business district. Josephus Daniels, after whom the school was originally named, was born at...
by Supporting Education | Jun 26, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS), the required curriculum of the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), applies to the state’s 1.4 million public school students, making sure that education across the state is consistent and equitable. The...
by Supporting Education | Jun 19, 2020 | Student Issues
Milton Snavely Hershey was never satisfied to go down in history as a candy-man. The founder of Lancaster Caramel and then his magnum opus, The Hershey Chocolate Company, Hershey also founded the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, explored and lauded the effects of good...
by Supporting Education | Jun 5, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent tens of thousands of students home from universities around the country, with classes either preemptively ended or changed to an online format. For many students, this will damage the quality of the education they’re receiving, education...
by Supporting Education | May 29, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
At the beginning of April, several weeks after nearly all schools in the United States were shuttered, 4,000 teachers in South Carolina were surveyed about how remote teaching was going. More than 80 percent of those teachers reported that at least one of their...
by Supporting Education | May 22, 2020 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While a few states and the president looked for ways to send children back to school beginning in May, most of the country was looking more seriously at September, and at new approaches to how in-person education is organized. If, as both virologists and historians...
by Supporting Education | May 15, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the U.S., there are more than 55 million children of school age, and this year they have all, each and every one, had their education massively interrupted in a way usually only seen in countries at war. Some schools, either by state or by district, are scrambling...
by Supporting Education | May 1, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The SAT, that tool of college admission, has always been a communal experience – a few hundred students in a gym or lecture hall, each at their own desk, quietly scratching away at the standardized questions under the eyes of a team of proctors. But in light of the...
by Supporting Education | Apr 24, 2020 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
President Trump has announced his three-stage “Opening Up America Again” COVID-19 recovery plan, which is intended to move at a pace governed by infection numbers in any given state. Stage One maintains shelter in place and closed schools. If 14 consecutive days show...
