by Sarah Green | Nov 21, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
A teacher at Baltimore’s Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School has been fired after she was caught on video screaming at a classroom full of middle school students and using a racial epithet. The school is mostly black, and the teacher is white. After yelling at a...
by Sarah Green | Nov 18, 2016 | Student Issues
School discipline can have a long-term effect on children’s lives, especially kids growing up in poor urban areas. Traditionally, the default response to kids getting in trouble is either detention or suspension. The former is mostly boring, and the latter disrupts...
by Sarah Green | Nov 7, 2016 | Student Issues
We tend to think of our minds “wandering” as getting away from the task at hand and being a distraction from important work. But according to new research from the University of British Columbia, this is an essential part of how our brains work. According to the...
by Sarah Green | Nov 2, 2016 | Student Issues
Schizophrenia is not a well-understood disorder, but it is one that humans have been dealing with for a very long time. Although schizophrenia usually sets in between the ages of 18 and 25, it can set in during childhood as well. About 1 in 400,000 children (as...
by Sarah Green | Oct 31, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The American Institutes for Research took a look at formal early childhood education this year, or as most of us know it, preschool. They found that approximately 48 percent of children from families below the poverty level participate in any form of preschool,...
