by Sarah Green | Jan 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues
South Dakota has the third largest concentration of Native Americans of any state, more than 9% of the total population. Mostly Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota, they are the majority in several of the state’s 66 counties. South Dakota has seven large Native American...
by Sarah Green | Jan 11, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
People have been fighting against the teaching of evolution for years, most notably since the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925. Since then, there have been a number of legal challenges to teaching science in classrooms, especially since the advent of “Intelligent Design”...
by Sarah Green | Jan 7, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Within the space of several weeks, two things happened in Dent County, Missouri: First, the town lowered flags to half-mast in mourning over the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationally. Second, Jacob Wilson, a native of the town and an...
by Sarah Green | Dec 30, 2015 | News, Student Issues
China is changing the way it educates students, or at least, it’s investigating different paths and tweaking some of the ways it does things. The biggest move is one that steps away from the reliance on gaokao, the national exams to determine who gets into college....
by Sarah Green | Dec 28, 2015 | Student Issues
Arabic is spoken in twenty countries across two continents by over 400 million people, more than five percent of the world’s population. It is #6 in the top ten list by percentages. In the United States, there are more than a million Arabic speakers and it is...
