by Supporting Education | Oct 25, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
The demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, which began a strike on Thursday, October 17, 2019, are familiar by now. Living wages suited to their area. Additional resources in schools, from more paper towels and white-board markers to more teaching staff, nurses, and...
by Supporting Education | Oct 18, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In the current run-up to the 2020 election, education is a hot topic on candidates’ tongues. Beto O’Rourke wants to increase student loan forgiveness programs, especially for teachers. Bernie Sanders wants free tuition in public colleges and universities. Warren wants...
by Supporting Education | Oct 11, 2019 | News
In 1995, the Department of Education started the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. It was built to allow students deceived by dishonest academic institutions to be forgiven their student loans. In 2016, the Obama administration finalized rules for the program,...
by Supporting Education | Oct 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
The students of Franklin High School in Ohio began their school day on Wednesday, October 2, with a briefing about what was to come. But when the shooting started, panic and tears still came. The active shooter drill, run by the school and Franklin city police, had...
by Supporting Education | Sep 27, 2019 | Teacher Issues
Kids always get excited about Halloween. Whether it’s the costumes or the trick-or-treating or decorating the house for the holiday, children are all in for this sugary holiday. You can add to the energy by doing some cool and cute Halloween crafts with your students....
by Supporting Education | Sep 17, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
Last year, a survey by the federal Department of Education found that 94 percent of U.S. public school teachers pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, without reimbursement, and that they spend an average of nearly $500 a year doing so. Purchase by teachers range...
by Supporting Education | Sep 5, 2019 | News
While American parents wait (and wait, and wait, and wait) to see what the country will do to help prevent mass shootings, like many other developed countries have done, some people are taking the issues into their own hands. Parents are buying bullet-resistant...
by Supporting Education | Aug 30, 2019 | Student Issues
As September begins, most students in the U.S. are either back in school or about to be so. For many, getting back into the habit of studying and retaining so much information is daunting, even exhausting. So here are a few tricks to try out. 1. Set yourself up for...
by Supporting Education | Aug 23, 2019 | News, Student Issues
If you’re like most adults in the United States, you attended a school that employed a full-time librarian. Not just someone who stocked the shelves and kept the records, but an actual librarian, whose field of study was research and teaching and who was there to pass...
by Supporting Education | Aug 16, 2019 | News
According to a survey by the National Retail Foundation, in 2018 the average parent of elementary school-age kids spent nearly $125 on school supplies per student, excluding clothes and electronics (if you include those, the average is over $630). From pencils to...
