by Sarah Green | Feb 29, 2016 | News
To call the “debate” around climate change “polarizing” would be an understatement. Few things are as fiercely fought against by a select few than the overwhelming evidence that climate change is real and is caused by human activity. Some pretty powerful interests are...
by Sarah Green | Feb 25, 2016 | News
The school district of Hartford, Connecticut has an ambitious, community-changing goal. The city and district want to see health clinics in every school in the city, eventually. That’s a tall order, and a virtually unseen combination. But they’ve taken the...
by Sarah Green | Feb 22, 2016 | News
Jerry O’Donnell, the sixty-year-old science teacher at Eagles Landing Middle School in West Boca, is a busy man. He does the carpentry for his school’s teaching gardens, organizes a town computer recycling program, and teaches physics to 12 and...
by Sarah Green | Feb 18, 2016 | Student Issues
As the end of the school year is coming up, a lot of students are wondering what’s next. Having an education doesn’t always lead directly to a career, though most successful people will tell you that it does help. Lots of people who have been through it have plenty of...
by Sarah Green | Feb 17, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Despite all the fear of online predators waiting in chat rooms to harm children, it turns out that a large number of children are being harassed online not by random strangers, but by their own friends. According to a survey from Michigan State University, 1 in 4 kids...
by Sarah Green | Feb 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The scholarship hunt has come a long way from the pre-internet years, the days of haphazardly curated binders in the school counselor’s office. There are dozens of scholarship databases online, but the hunt is still incredibly frustrating, offering few ways to...
by Sarah Green | Feb 10, 2016 | News
Niche eateries seem to be everywhere these days. Diners in treehouses, cat cafes in animal shelters, food truck convergences in national parks; gourmet dining can be found anywhere you can imagine it. But it’s a little hard to imagine it in a college dorm. Jonah...
by Sarah Green | Feb 2, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The core of financial education that your average student needs isn’t much. Just the practical basics. But those are vital basics. Far too many kids graduate not knowing not only how to balance their checkbook, but how to open an account in the first place. Or...
by Sarah Green | Jan 29, 2016 | News
In 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court found the state in deep debt to its educational budget, a ruling called the McLeary decision. The Legislature was directed to address the issue. By spring of 2015, nothing had been done, and fed up, the WSSC levied fines of...
by Sarah Green | Jan 27, 2016 | News
The last recession had an impact on higher education spending across the country. But, for the third consecutive year, that spending has increased overall, by 4%. The data, based on 2015, is still preliminary, as Illinois and Pennsylvania are still negotiating budgets...
