by Sarah Green | Jan 22, 2016 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A coordinated wave of bomb threats put nine North Jersey school districts on lock-down this week. And happily, they were a hoax. But they pointed out a big problem for schools in the middle of an emergency like that – the hoard of parents flocking to the rescue. Even...
by Sarah Green | Jan 19, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Refugees out of Syria are the largest news story worldwide as we enter 2016. A lot of questionable facts are tossed around about this demographic, but the statistics are in, and easy to find. And the truth of the matter is that more than half of these asylum-seekers...
by Sarah Green | Jan 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Babysitting cats and doing students’ laundry are not the usual duties of a teacher, but very little is usual in the city of Garland, Texas right now. The day after Christmas, nine tornadoes whipped across North Texas. One plowed right through the city,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues
South Dakota has the third largest concentration of Native Americans of any state, more than 9% of the total population. Mostly Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota, they are the majority in several of the state’s 66 counties. South Dakota has seven large Native American...
by Sarah Green | Jan 11, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
People have been fighting against the teaching of evolution for years, most notably since the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925. Since then, there have been a number of legal challenges to teaching science in classrooms, especially since the advent of “Intelligent Design”...
by Sarah Green | Jan 7, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Within the space of several weeks, two things happened in Dent County, Missouri: First, the town lowered flags to half-mast in mourning over the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationally. Second, Jacob Wilson, a native of the town and an...
by Sarah Green | Dec 30, 2015 | News, Student Issues
China is changing the way it educates students, or at least, it’s investigating different paths and tweaking some of the ways it does things. The biggest move is one that steps away from the reliance on gaokao, the national exams to determine who gets into college....
by Sarah Green | Dec 28, 2015 | Student Issues
Arabic is spoken in twenty countries across two continents by over 400 million people, more than five percent of the world’s population. It is #6 in the top ten list by percentages. In the United States, there are more than a million Arabic speakers and it is...
by Sarah Green | Dec 21, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is urging New York governor Andrew Cuomo to raise salaries for professors at the City University of New York, who have gone without a pay increase since 2010, despite the rising cost of simply existing in New York. In a letter to...
by Sarah Green | Dec 17, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Sports are a favorite pastime in America, and they engage people of all ages, abilities, genders, regions, and income brackets. People play sports, watch sports, talk about sports, collect sports memorabilia, gamble on sports, and follow their favorite sports stars....
