by Sarah Green | Dec 16, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
According to a study published by the Violence Prevention Initiative at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suggests that teaching young girls problem-solving and leadership skills can help reduce relational aggression among young girls. Relational aggression...
by Sarah Green | Dec 15, 2015 | News
Just a matter of weeks before school started in September this year, New Mexico schools put out an emergency call for more teachers. Just one district cited a shortage of more than 250 teacher positions open. And that wasn’t the first year, either. Like many...
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Late in the evening on Wednesday, November 2, the House of Representatives approved the Every Child Succeeds Act, a broadly sweeping bill to revise (or outright replace) the unpopular No Child Left Behind law. Key in the revisions is the end of aggressive federal...
by Sarah Green | Dec 10, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Greenwich Academy is an educational institution empowered to support innovative programs through inspired leadership received from administrators, faculty, and volunteers from the financial community, like Rene Kern, Managing Director of General Atlantic, who sits on...
by Sarah Green | Dec 7, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Parental aspiration for their children’s academic performance, the hopes or expectations that their kids will receive certain grades, can be a double edged sword. On the one hand, in moderation and with realistic goals, parental aspirations can help students achieve...
by Sarah Green | Dec 2, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
In 2011, the US Department of Education hung out a Help Wanted sign for teachers in science, technology, engineering and math, and any related field. At the time, they were looking to fill 100,000 positions, nationwide. A hundred thousand open positions. A hundred...
by Sarah Green | Dec 1, 2015 | News
The prep for Homecoming Week that most of us remember is probably making cardstock and glitter decorations, renting a helium tank to fill about a thousand balloons, and doing that thing with scissors and thumb to curl a mile of plastic ribbon. School Pride week was...
by Sarah Green | Nov 30, 2015 | News
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that personalized, one-on-one tutoring not only helps students develop their math skills, but for children with high anxiety about doing math, it can actually help them reduce that anxiety. The...
by Sarah Green | Nov 12, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
According to a recent study performed by a graduate student in Sweden, most educational software isn’t actually helping students. Björn Sjöden, who led the study, claims that only about 17% of math and Swedish teaching software, out of the top 100 apps in those...
by Sarah Green | Nov 11, 2015 | News
Ray Cammack Shows Inc. is a traveling giant, dozens of rides, scores of game trailers, and hundreds of workers riding the circuit from fair to fair, hitting nine cities in the season, including the massive Arizona State Fair in Phoenix, Arizona. It’s a...
