by Sarah Green | Oct 3, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Back in early August of 2018, Saudi Arabia took steps to cut ties with Canada. The Riyadh government blames “blatant interference” from Canada into their domestic affairs for the split, after a Canadian Minister used Twitter to speak out about the imprisonment of a...
by Sarah Green | Sep 26, 2018 | News, Student Issues
In 2016, a testing of the water in Detroit schools showed elevated levels of lead and copper. This summer, a follow-up round of testing at 24 schools found critical levels of one, the other, or both in two out of three of those. Nikolai Vitti, the Superintendent of...
by Sarah Green | Sep 19, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Many schools, perhaps most, ban the use of cell phones for students in class. A large number also forbid them from being brought to school at all. But for years, France has taken it a step farther. In 2010, the country enacted an actual law banning cell phones during...
by Sarah Green | Sep 12, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Last year, West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey had a serious bullying problem. One of the poorest-ranked schools in the state, West Side’s student body is largely well below the poverty level. Many students are homeless, and the school’s principal, Akbar Cook,...
by Sarah Green | Sep 5, 2018 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
This Oklahoma student is twelve years old, in the seventh grade, and transgender. Her family moved into the Achille Independent School District, in rural Byron County, when she was in fifth grade, and she has always attended schools there as a girl. “She’s been living...
by Supporting Education | Aug 15, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Derrick Rose, the 29-year-old basketball player who was the youngest ever to earn the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award all the way back in 2011, has had a very successful career. And he is as dedicated to paying his success forward as he is to playing his sport. In...
by Sarah Green | Aug 8, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Basketball star LeBron James grew up in Akron, Ohio, the son of a teenage single mother. He remembers missing weeks of school at a time while they moved from apartment to apartment, never stable, never sure they wouldn’t be living in their car next month. It took a...
by Sarah Green | Aug 1, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is the current president-elect of Mexico, having won 53 percent of the popular vote and the majorities in 31 out of Mexico’s 32 states. He ran on a platform of rooting out corruption “from top to bottom, like sweeping the stairs,” and...
by Sarah Green | Jul 26, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Federal law in the U.S. requires that all children on American soil receive a free public education. Emphasis on the “all.” The law makes no distinction between children regardless of their immigration status. Despite certain claims made by anti-immigration pundits,...
by Sarah Green | Jul 18, 2018 | News, Student Issues
It was most likely an unfortunate oversight, but it was a hurtful one all the same. When Cascade View Elementary School in Western Washington handed out their yearbooks at the end of the school year, 14 students were omitted. Not because they had missed photo day or...
