by Sarah Green | Mar 30, 2016 | News, Student Issues
According to a University of Saskatchewan accounting professor, making things easy for students doesn’t help them learn as much as making things difficult. Specifically, Fred Phillips, who has been teaching at the Edwards School of Business for 20 years, found that...
by Sarah Green | Mar 24, 2016 | News
According to a new study, students develop better decision making skills when they learn in groups. The study in question had some fifth graders work in groups over a six-week curriculum in which the explored the question of whether or not a community should hire...
by Sarah Green | Mar 17, 2016 | News
In 2015, US News did a study they call the STEM index, looking at the demographics of people holding degrees and jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, aka STEM fields. The results weren’t thrilling; progress on shrinking the notorious...
by Sarah Green | Mar 14, 2016 | News
Miami-Dade’s public schools are a large, multicultural group of school districts in southern Florida. But all of their ethnically diverse student bodies share one thing in common – they live in an area of high poverty. Nearly three quarters of their students...
by Sarah Green | Mar 12, 2016 | News
Nunavut Sivuniksavut is a unique educational program in Canada. Based in Ottawa, it’s an eight-month college program centered around teaching Inuit history, with everything from culture to legal matters included in the curriculum. The students are all from...
