by Sarah Green | Oct 24, 2015 | News, Other
Shark Tank premiered on television in 2009. It marked the arrival of the business pitch as a source of entertainment. Traditionally, pitching an idea to investors is a dull process executed in boardrooms with little fanfare. The technology boom transformed that...
by Sarah Green | Oct 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The prospects for new teachers are, many say, worse than ever. Inadequate pay, high-stakes tests that can sink a career or an entire school, and the statistics of violence in schools in the last five years are the highest on record. It’s no wonder that schools...
by Sarah Green | Oct 22, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Researchers from the University of Chicago have determined that adding math to story time before bed can greatly improve children’s math performance. Specifically, they studying the effects of an app called Bedtime Math, which uses story problems to help engage kids...
by Sarah Green | Oct 20, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Across the United States, many students from kindergarten through high school face a single trial: The annual science fair project. It’s homework times ten: the students must come up with an idea and a hypothesis, design and run an experiment, and report on it...
by Sarah Green | Oct 16, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Over the last decade the cost of a college education has increased 45 percent. During that same time household incomes have fallen 7 percent. Families are facing a higher education funding crisis, and they don’t know how to fix it. Leaders in education, government,...
