by Supporting Education | Mar 22, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In 2018, a study was conducted for Australian National University into the effects of childhood literary immersion on long-term literacy. They found that adults who grew up in a home rich with books (and presumably, parents who valued books) performed as well in...
by Supporting Education | Feb 6, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
In the summer of 2018, the news was aflame with stories of immigrant children being held in detention camps, with pictures of young boys and girls sleeping on cement in chain link cages under emergency blankets. Since then, the tide of stories diminished to a trickle,...
by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Food safety is a hot topic in the news this winter, in the wake of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli presumed to be linked to romaine lettuce, and the nationwide caution against eating romaine coming from California. Every restaurant and grocery store around the...
by Sarah Green | Oct 31, 2018 | News, Student Issues
The opening line from this article in The New York Times is a chilling one: “Tonight, about one out of every 10 students in New York City will sleep in a homeless shelter or in the homes of relatives,” wrote staff writer Eliza Shapiro. 114,659 students are either...
by Sarah Green | Oct 24, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
When people talk about teaching positive consent to children, there is often a lot of reluctance. Many people link the topic inextricably to sex, and therefore assume it’s inappropriate in a third-grade classroom. But Liz Kleinrock, who teaches 8- and 9-year-olds at...
