by Sarah Green | Apr 25, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Image via: GongTo / Shutterstock.com Automotive shop class is an institution in American high schools. Our car culture means there will always be jobs for mechanically-minded students, and everyone should know at least the basic maintenance for that machine so central...
by Supporting Education | Apr 21, 2016 | News
In New York City, there is a private school that has taken to heart the bit of advice ‘make learning fun.’ Quest to Learn, which opened in 2009 for students sixth grade through ninth, is a small school that centers its entire curriculum around the concept...
by Sarah Green | Apr 13, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Facebook, while an outlier in terms of scale, is just one example of the boom of entrepreneurship among college students. Mark Zuckerberg was a freshman when he launched thefacebook.com in 2004, and now he is one of the 100 wealthiest people in the world. Facebook...
by Sarah Green | Apr 2, 2016 | News
In a political climate that seems to confuse the right to discriminate with the right to religious freedom, it’s easy to feel tired of hearing that phrase come up in the news. But the Department of Justice, together with the Department of Education, is making a...
by Sarah Green | Mar 31, 2016 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A recent study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing has found that kindergartners who are “behind in social-behavioral development” are more likely to have problems later in school. These problems include being held back, requiring individualized...
