by Sarah Green | Jul 11, 2018 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is a great deal to be learned inside a virtual lab environment. Students can access real research while trying to recreate the experiments that generated it. Teachers can model the scientific process or design custom programs for their students to theorize,...
by Sarah Green | Jul 4, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Fifteen years ago, Ricky Arnold was a middle school science teacher with an incurable wanderlust. His career as a teacher took him from Maryland to the Middle East to the islands of the Pacific. But even that wasn’t enough. In 2006, Arnold completed Astronaut...
by Sarah Green | Jun 27, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“A community without a school…is a vacant community,” Verónica Dávila, a second-grade teacher at a rural Puerto Rico school, told Vox. “It’s actually a dead community.” Puerto Rico’s educational crisis hardly began with Hurricane Maria, but the weather catastrophe has...
by Sarah Green | Jun 20, 2018 | News, Student Issues
With the end of the school year looming in Westbrook School Department in Maine, Superintendent Peter Lancia was trying to settle the budget. There was a large red entry in the ledgers: nearly $17,000 of lunch debt. Lunch debt is common in school districts all over...
by Sarah Green | Jun 15, 2018 | News, Student Issues
In 2013, Chicago’s school district had a $1 billion hole in their budget. The deficit was years in the making, despite numerous local tax levies passing to try to fill it. When the district closed 50 schools as a result, they promised the families of relocated...
by Sarah Green | Jun 6, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Tim Cook, CEO of technology giant Apple, is on a mission to make coding a universal skill. “Apple is celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day by making coding more inclusive for students across the country. Because when we say Everyone Can Code, we mean...
by Sarah Green | May 30, 2018 | Teacher Issues
Tuesday, May 8, was Teacher Appreciation Day here in the U.S. If you missed it, don’t feel too bad. It doesn’t get a lot of hype. There are no commercials, no sales, no ad space dedicated to it. A few restaurants offer discounts, and principals usually bring in donuts...
by Sarah Green | May 16, 2018 | News, Teacher Issues
Marc Schubert is an educational assistant at Delton Elementary School in inner-city Edmonton, Alberta, where he works with students from a variety of experiences. He’s also an avid player of Dungeons & Dragons, the popular dice-based tabletop fantasy role-playing...
by Sarah Green | May 2, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Fifty-seven percent of teenagers in the United States are concerned that a shooting will take place in their own school. Nearly half of those are “very worried” about the chance. According to these results from a survey by Pew Research Center, half of all high school...
by Sarah Green | Apr 25, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Immediately after the shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen students and staff, Florida passed a law and assigned millions of dollars to permit and train school personnel to carry guns. The new law was named the Aaron Feis Guardian Act...
