by Sarah Green | Oct 19, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Kinsey French is a bride like many others—beautiful, young, and preparing to be married before all of her friends and family. Her family is a little bigger than most. French is a teacher at Christian Acadamy’s Providence School in Louisville, Kentucky. For the past...
by Sarah Green | Oct 17, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While a growing majority of children in public education are students of color, about 80 percent of teachers are white. It’s important that teachers have connections to their students, and that connection is very much improved when a student has access to teachers who...
by Sarah Green | Oct 14, 2016 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
Today, Kamaria Downs is 23 and an elementary school teacher in Greenville, South Carolina. She is also the mother of a nearly-two-year-old daughter, Ryann. And she’s making a footprint on education in her state, though not in the way one might expect. Two years ago,...
by Sarah Green | Oct 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For World Teacher Day, October 5, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) released the results of a worldwide survey of ongoing teacher shortages. The first survey on the topic of this scale, it isn’t encouraging anywhere, but the numbers in sub-Saharan Africa in...
by Sarah Green | Oct 10, 2016 | News, Student Issues
For kids with speech and language disorders, early intervention can make a world of difference. But according to research at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital, 60 percent of these children may not even be diagnosed until they’re in Kindergarten. Sometimes it...
by Sarah Green | Oct 7, 2016 | News, Student Issues
In recognition of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender student population, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, will stop referring to the Homecoming King and Homecoming Queen and call them Homecoming Royalty. Students in each grade...
by Sarah Green | Oct 5, 2016 | News, Student Issues
In the past, the City University of New York has offered to waive its $65 application fee for only the most needy of students. However, that still left the application fee as a substantial barrier for many other students who didn’t meet CUNY’s formerly stringent...
by Sarah Green | Oct 3, 2016 | News, Student Issues
For-profit trade schools are predicated on getting people to pay, up front, for a short program that will get them a well-paying job. Like any other for-profit school, however, the reality is less than the promise. Students who attend these schools accumulate large...
by Sarah Green | Sep 30, 2016 | Profiles
Emma Yang compares learning to program to finding a superpower or learning to use the Force. It was that powerful to her, right from the beginning. Born in Hong Kong to a STEM household (her father is in computer science, her mother is a mathematician), Yang learned...
by Sarah Green | Sep 28, 2016 | News, Student Issues
According to a recent study from the National Center for Children in Poverty and Columbia University, a large number of states in the U.S. utilize Medicaid to provide mental health services to poor children. That coverage isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly helpful. The...
