by Supporting Education | Feb 27, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
In the United States, gender segregation in the workplace, across all careers, has seen a significant decline since the 1970s. Careers that were once wholly male almost all see at least a 15-percent female presence, and the same is true of the reverse. Except,...
by Supporting Education | Feb 20, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
The salaries of our country’s teachers have become a subject of the news. Whether or not you agree with school pay scales, you’ve seen protests, strikes, and legislation around the topic year after year. And despite all of this action, the salaries of our educators...
by Supporting Education | Feb 14, 2019 | News, Student Issues
One of the worst things that can happen to a school is for it to lose its national accreditation. On January 11, 2019, the University of Alaska Anchorage was informed that its education department had suffered this indignity. The Council for the Accreditation of...
by Supporting Education | Feb 6, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
In the summer of 2018, the news was aflame with stories of immigrant children being held in detention camps, with pictures of young boys and girls sleeping on cement in chain link cages under emergency blankets. Since then, the tide of stories diminished to a trickle,...
by Supporting Education | Jan 30, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Career Education Corporation is the business behind Colorado Technical University and American InterContinental University, two for-profit remote learning schools that together enroll approximately 34,000 students. While both schools are still accredited, they...
by Supporting Education | Jan 23, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Hamdi Ali, 17, is a Muslim high school student from Edmonton who spent last summer in a research program aimed at helping women and other minorities in STEM subjects. In that time, she made headlines and could possibly have revolutionized a niche of the mining...
by Supporting Education | Jan 16, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In 2007, the Bush Administration passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA), which created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The point of this was to encourage professionals to work in public service fields by offering them forgiveness...
by Supporting Education | Jan 9, 2019 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
In 1994, a number of professionals in science and education were invited by Senator Diane Watson to visit South Africa and evaluate the status of education there. Among that group was Professor Hal Walker, who worked on Apollo 11, and his wife Doctor Bettye D. Walker,...
by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Food safety is a hot topic in the news this winter, in the wake of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli presumed to be linked to romaine lettuce, and the nationwide caution against eating romaine coming from California. Every restaurant and grocery store around the...
by Supporting Education | Dec 19, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
If you grew up in the northern half of the United States and a snowstorm came, you may remember excitedly listening to the radio or checking text messages to see if school was cancelled that day. If one school district’s experiment is successful, though, instead of...
