by Sarah Green | Feb 22, 2016 | News
Jerry O’Donnell, the sixty-year-old science teacher at Eagles Landing Middle School in West Boca, is a busy man. He does the carpentry for his school’s teaching gardens, organizes a town computer recycling program, and teaches physics to 12 and...
by Sarah Green | Feb 18, 2016 | Student Issues
As the end of the school year is coming up, a lot of students are wondering what’s next. Having an education doesn’t always lead directly to a career, though most successful people will tell you that it does help. Lots of people who have been through it have plenty of...
by Sarah Green | Feb 17, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Despite all the fear of online predators waiting in chat rooms to harm children, it turns out that a large number of children are being harassed online not by random strangers, but by their own friends. According to a survey from Michigan State University, 1 in 4 kids...
by Sarah Green | Feb 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The scholarship hunt has come a long way from the pre-internet years, the days of haphazardly curated binders in the school counselor’s office. There are dozens of scholarship databases online, but the hunt is still incredibly frustrating, offering few ways to...
by Sarah Green | Feb 2, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The core of financial education that your average student needs isn’t much. Just the practical basics. But those are vital basics. Far too many kids graduate not knowing not only how to balance their checkbook, but how to open an account in the first place. Or...
