by Sarah Green | Nov 18, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Paul Tudor Jones II, the head of Tudor Investment Corporation, is an incredibly successful hedge fund manager. Tudor Investment Corp is worth around $132 billion today, and Jones spends his days watching his fund’s market positions projected on the wall above his...
by Sarah Green | Nov 15, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Last week, Harvard released a financial report with a chilling fact: its deficit sits at a staggering $34 million, compared to the $7.9 shortfall in 2012. Harvard is perhaps the best-known Ivy League school, prestigious and powerful. It’s also the world’s richest...
by Sarah Green | Nov 15, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
How is America doing, educationally? Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or the Nation’s Report Card. So what’s the verdict? Things are getting better, slowly. “The 2013 NAEP report card...
by Sarah Green | Nov 13, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
It’s been nearly a year since the devastating events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Many may even remember where they were, or what they were doing, when they first heard the news: that a lone gunman had killed dozens of children and adults...
by Sarah Green | Nov 11, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The United States and other countries have, for the past few years, been intensely focused on bringing technology into the classroom. Kids love computers, and indeed, having access to the World Wide Web presents some fantastic learning opportunities. Programs like...
by Sarah Green | Nov 8, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Recently, we wrote about the opportunities for students that participate in Moody’s Mega Math Challenge, and now are happy to report that the annual challenge is expanding to 17 more states! The competition, also known as the M3 Challenge, is a reminder to...
by Sarah Green | Nov 6, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of today’s hottest education topics is STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—programs. President Obama himself has said that the United States needs to focus more on science and math, and schools across the nation have begun adopting the STEM...
by Sarah Green | Nov 4, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
To an outsider, our world might look like one filled with fairytale magic: horseless carriages, handheld communication devices, and instant access to a world of information whenever we want it. Of course, to those of us living down here, it’s far from magical: it’s...
by Sarah Green | Nov 1, 2013 | News, Student Issues
In the past few years, more and more questions have come up about whether it’s legal for companies to hire unpaid “interns.” While unpaid internships have been prominent especially in recent years, several lawsuits have been filed in recent years. While an internship...
by Sarah Green | Oct 31, 2013 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
As dictated by federal labor laws and state minimum wage laws, it’s illegal for companies and organizations not to pay employees that provide work that has immediate benefit to said company/organization. In the land of education, where schools are the employers and...
