by Sarah Green | Jan 4, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We all know that kids like to play video games. Whether it’s Pokémon Go or games played on social networks or through phone apps, we’ve raised a generation of game-loving children. While some may think this will lead to the end of society as we know it, research has...
by Sarah Green | Jan 2, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Early childhood education, for those familiar with it, is of immense value, but to many people, it doesn’t seem to work out that way. Quality early childhood programs are expensive, and budgets have to get cut somewhere, right? But the same people who might support...
by Sarah Green | Dec 28, 2016 | Student Issues
There has been a lot of discussion about fake news and how it may have affected the recent presidential election. From clickbait sites to deliberately misleading sites to satire sites, and sites that may spread fake news by accident, the impact of fake news is...
by Sarah Green | Dec 23, 2016 | News
Dialysis centers are often usually chilly places, and while they often make an attempt at Christmas cheer, it’s not somewhere that anyone wants to be. This might be particularly true in the center at the Veterans Home of Collins in Collins, Missouri. But Tuesday,...
by Sarah Green | Dec 21, 2016 | Student Issues
It’s the time of the year when students all across the U.S. and Canada are trying to cram college applications in with all the end-of-semester projects they have for their classes. Most college application deadlines are between January 1 and February 15, in order to...
by Sarah Green | Dec 19, 2016 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
Letting kids win at games might actually be bad for them. According to new research from Amherst College, rigging a game so that young children always win prevents them from developing the skills necessary to formulate judgments about those skills. Essentially, if...
by Sarah Green | Dec 16, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The yearbook is an iconic part of the high school experience. Many schools have year-round yearbook clubs, staffed by students, building content to be published. They take pictures, write blurbs and short essays about their school, and decide what will be immortalized...
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect about 1 percent of the world’s population, and they are caused by a variety of genetic mutations. One of those mutations has now been singled out, and the autism caused by that gene may well be reversible. The mechanical way in...
by Sarah Green | Dec 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues
In 2015, U.S. high school graduation rates were higher than they have ever been. That year’s overall rate of 83.2 percent seems to be spread across all ethnic groups, as well as disabled students and students from low-income families. In a recent address to Benjamin...
by Sarah Green | Dec 9, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In the week following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, many high schools saw activist students walking out of classes to protest the election results. Between 1,500 and 2,000 students walked off the campus of Berkeley High School in...
