by Sarah Green | Dec 21, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is urging New York governor Andrew Cuomo to raise salaries for professors at the City University of New York, who have gone without a pay increase since 2010, despite the rising cost of simply existing in New York. In a letter to...
by Sarah Green | Dec 17, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Sports are a favorite pastime in America, and they engage people of all ages, abilities, genders, regions, and income brackets. People play sports, watch sports, talk about sports, collect sports memorabilia, gamble on sports, and follow their favorite sports stars....
by Sarah Green | Dec 16, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
According to a study published by the Violence Prevention Initiative at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suggests that teaching young girls problem-solving and leadership skills can help reduce relational aggression among young girls. Relational aggression...
by Sarah Green | Dec 15, 2015 | News
Just a matter of weeks before school started in September this year, New Mexico schools put out an emergency call for more teachers. Just one district cited a shortage of more than 250 teacher positions open. And that wasn’t the first year, either. Like many...
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Late in the evening on Wednesday, November 2, the House of Representatives approved the Every Child Succeeds Act, a broadly sweeping bill to revise (or outright replace) the unpopular No Child Left Behind law. Key in the revisions is the end of aggressive federal...
