by Sarah Green | Apr 5, 2017 | News, Student Issues
All across the nation, students are running help desks at their high schools. And they’re doing so for class credit. It all started in 2011, when Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts, rolled out over 1,000 iPad tablets for student and teacher use....
by Sarah Green | Mar 31, 2017 | News, Student Issues
It’s an unfortunate sign of the times and a reflection of a growing crisis. School nurses’ medicine cabinets contain all sorts of remedies for minor bruises, headaches, and allergic reactions—and now in some schools, those nurses also have naloxone. Naloxone, a drug...
by Sarah Green | Mar 6, 2017 | News
Back in 2012, venture capitalist Barry Eggers, co-founder of venture capital company Lightspeed Venture Partners, became the chair of the Saint Francis High School growth fund. At the time, Eggers’ two children attended Saint Francis, a private Roman Catholic high...
by Sarah Green | Mar 3, 2017 | Student Issues
According to research from NYU Steinhardt and RAND Corporation, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized tests than do their peers in traditional public or charter schools. This is based on research in Ohio, which has allowed online charter...
by Sarah Green | Mar 1, 2017 | News, Student Issues
The PrivateBank Theatre in Chicago seats 1800, and Hamilton, the hip-hop historical smash hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, sells it out every night. On Wednesday, February 22, every seat was full as usual, but this time, they were all occupied by high school...
