by Sarah Green | May 31, 2017 | Student Issues
When it was first announced that Vice President Mike Pence would be the speaker of note at the commencement ceremony for graduates of the University of Notre Dame, plenty of students’ first impulse was not to attend. But that would be letting the political Right rob...
by Sarah Green | Aug 29, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Rainier Beach High School in Seattle doesn’t have the best reputation, but that’s starting to change. Over the last two years, the school has had a 25-point increase in graduation rates, and in spring of 2016, 79% of seniors there graduated, which is higher than the...
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 | May 19, 2015 | Teacher Issues
Every college graduate right now knows (or should know) that they are being tipped out into a glutted market. But few job markets are worse than early childhood education, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). In an article published in USA...
by Sarah Green | May 16, 2014 | News
This past Saturday, the 2014 graduating class of UC Berkeley School of Law was given speeches by two successful litigators: Ted Olson and David Boies, the pair who took on the daunting task of battling Proposition 8—California’s ban on same-sex marriage—all the way to...