by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | News, Other
Skoltech, a Russian graduate university, is being cut off by MIT over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology partnered with the Russian government to found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, generally known...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Taliban hasn’t been paying teachers in Afghanistan. Now UNICEF is stepping in to make sure Afghan children don’t lose all access to education. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, international trade and banking sanctions against the new...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | News, Student Issues
The Rye Riptides, an unmanned sailboat launched by students in New Hampshire, has made it to a Norway beach after more than a year. The Rye Riptides is a six-foot-long miniature sailboat with a rigid, fixed sail sent off by the students of Rye Junior High in October...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Maus, the deeply evocative graphic novel about the Holocaust, was banned in a Tennessee school district for being ‘inappropriate.’ The McMinn County School Board has been reviewing the literature in their curriculum and libraries for what is appropriate...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
Hackers preying on infrastructure have turned their attention to schools, the very last people who need that kind of stress. In Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier this school year, a ransomware attack locked teachers out of the district’s student database –...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 31, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A budget surplus in the Minnesota state government is being turned into big changes for early childhood education. On Tuesday, Minn. Governor Tim Walz announced his office’s plan to focus state infrastructure improvements on increasing child care options, Head...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 24, 2022 | News, Student Issues
The CDC recommends schools postpone all social extracurricular activities during this COVID surge, from football to band. Only a few weeks ago, the CDC altered their recommendation about isolation after Covid from 10 days to 5, although they cautioned recoverees to...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | News, Student Issues
The University of Pittsburgh has taken a hardline stance on vaccination: Get vaxxed, or be disenrolled. On December 6, UPitt announced a vaccine mandate – all students, faculty, and staff were required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 1st. The...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Insurrection Day is tomorrow, though history probably won’t call it that. Thursday, January 6 is the one year anniversary of the Capitol riot, the first violent breech of our nation’s capitol in its 221-year history. Teachers have been debating how to...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 27, 2021 | News, Other, Teacher Issues
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced Monday that $123.3 million in federal relief money would be going to Texas schools. The money is from the Coronavirus Response and and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, the bill passed by Congress in 2020. It contained...
