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,...
by Sarah Green | Oct 24, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
A recent study has found that unconscious racial bias may be impacting which children are suggested for special education or gifted programs. The researchers presented 70 third-grade teachers from 14 schools in a single district with a number of case files for...
by Sarah Green | Oct 17, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While a growing majority of children in public education are students of color, about 80 percent of teachers are white. It’s important that teachers have connections to their students, and that connection is very much improved when a student has access to teachers who...
by Sarah Green | Oct 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For World Teacher Day, October 5, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) released the results of a worldwide survey of ongoing teacher shortages. The first survey on the topic of this scale, it isn’t encouraging anywhere, but the numbers in sub-Saharan Africa in...
