by Sarah Green | Jan 18, 2017 | News
Exciting news for anyone who was a schoolchild in the mid-90s! The Magic School Bus will soon be back, once more to fire up interest in science among schoolchildren with funny curiosity-provoking adventures. The animated show aired originally on PBS from 1994 to 1999,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 9, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of the hardest things about getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is that they simply don’t have a lot of exposure to it beyond being users of technology. Girls in particular get shorted when it comes to STEM...
by Sarah Green | Jan 2, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Early childhood education, for those familiar with it, is of immense value, but to many people, it doesn’t seem to work out that way. Quality early childhood programs are expensive, and budgets have to get cut somewhere, right? But the same people who might support...
by Sarah Green | Dec 19, 2016 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
Letting kids win at games might actually be bad for them. According to new research from Amherst College, rigging a game so that young children always win prevents them from developing the skills necessary to formulate judgments about those skills. Essentially, if...
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect about 1 percent of the world’s population, and they are caused by a variety of genetic mutations. One of those mutations has now been singled out, and the autism caused by that gene may well be reversible. The mechanical way in...
