by Sarah Green | Mar 27, 2015 | News
Andrew Hamilton, formerly vice chancellor of Oxford University, will become the president of New York University next year, where his history as a personable administrator capable of dealing with tough situations is likely to come in handy. NYU is rising in fame, with...
by Sarah Green | Mar 25, 2015 | Student Issues
Everyone who remembers high school recalls the trail of mornings. Struggling to stay awake through that first class, fighting to retain anything the teacher was saying. Classmates falling asleep at their desks. The whole world seemed full of unsympathetic adults whose...
by Sarah Green | Mar 23, 2015 | Parent Issues
“How was your day?” “Fine.” We’re all guilty of that non-answer, aren’t we? Faced with such an open-ended question, crafting a response that has any meaning takes effort and attention we don’t always want to spare right then. In adults, it’s a...
by Sarah Green | Mar 20, 2015 | News
A New York-based organization is offering a fellowship program aimed at other organizations that help foster young entrepreneurs around the world. On March 6th, the Foundation for Talented Youth announced that it is a semifinalist for the Echoing Green Fellowship, a...
by Sarah Green | Mar 12, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
As we’ve written about before, there is a growing movement that wishes to fight The College Board’s revised curriculum for AP U.S. History. Recently, conservative politicians in several states have made efforts to ban AP U.S. History classes in high...
