by Sarah Green | Mar 7, 2018 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
This generation in education is going to be remembered as an era of technological leaps. The internet, tablets, and “disrupting” educational traditions with new technologies are all a part of the educational landscape right now, and none of these will be going away....
by Sarah Green | Feb 7, 2018 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The winter of 2017-18 is seeing one of the worst flu seasons on record, with 49 states seeing substantial flu activity and 39 of those seeing “especially high activity,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schools, which are particularly...
by Sarah Green | Jan 17, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Back in 2011, something insidious happened to our schools. Federal funding for civics education was quietly removed from the national budget for education. One year later, only nine states required any basic understanding in civics as a prerequisite for graduation....
by Sarah Green | Jan 10, 2018 | Student Issues
“I want to know if something isn’t right at Mt. Juliet High School,” said Principal Mel Brown, about the new app he’s using in his school to let students speak up anonymously about bullying. STOPit, an app developed by Todd Schnobel, calls itself a...
by Sarah Green | Dec 13, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Tiernan Kriner is eight years old, attends, Maine Memorial Elementary, and likes technology and robots. He’s also sick. Tiernan has Fanconi anemia, an inherited disease that makes him seven-hundred times more prone to cancer than the average person, as well as prone...
