by Supporting Education | May 17, 2019 | News, Student Issues
On, May 13, 2019, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law a new bill which gives undocumented students full access to state-provided financial aid. The State of Colorado awards a collected $160 million a year in financial aid. The state sees approximately...
by Supporting Education | May 10, 2019 | News, Student Issues
South Korea’s rural communities are disappearing, slowly but steadily. Young men and women, seeking opportunity, are moving to large cities out of the country, and as a result the small nation has one of the lowest birthrates in the world – less than one child per...
by Supporting Education | May 3, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
Since 1952, the National Teacher of the Year Program has been recognizing excellence in education. Every state puts forward a nominee, as do four U.S. territories, the Department of Defense, and Washington D.C., and a winner is chosen by a large committee of education...
by Supporting Education | Apr 26, 2019 | News, Student Issues
It’s only April, still more than a month left before summer vacation, but Falcon Hill Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona stopped sending home homework assignments. They stopped printing lunch menus, permission slips, book lists, and internal memos. Why? Because they...
by Supporting Education | Apr 19, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
Author James Patterson is prolific and productive, with over 147 books in print, making around $90 million a year in royalties. He vies with Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and George R.R. Martin to hold the top spot in the list of highest paid authors in the world, and...
by Supporting Education | Apr 11, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In Canada, the average age of a person experiencing their first period is twelve years, nine months. That puts them in approximately seventh grade, and it means they will go through 35 to 40 periods in school before they graduate. For many, periods start about an hour...
by Supporting Education | Apr 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
The toy box, it is said, is every child’s first school. The things we play with as children have a powerful influence over the direction of our lives. Building toys such as Lego blocks have long been lauded as useful tools in laying a foundation for engineering,...
by Supporting Education | Mar 29, 2019 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Yale has joined the list of universities to revoke the admissions of students linked to the latest nationwide scandal, that of wealthy and connected families bribing their way into elite schools. Without identifying the student in this instance, Yale University...
by Supporting Education | Mar 22, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In 2018, a study was conducted for Australian National University into the effects of childhood literary immersion on long-term literacy. They found that adults who grew up in a home rich with books (and presumably, parents who valued books) performed as well in...
by Supporting Education | Mar 6, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Every year, we see the same depressing statistics about disparities in school funding between white and nonwhite areas. And every year there’s much hand-wringing on both sides of the political aisle about how this has to change. And every year, nothing changes. So...
