by Supporting Education | Jul 10, 2020 | News
The Wake County Board of Education in Raleigh, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to rename Daniels Middle School to Oberlin Middle School, after a local historically Black business district. Josephus Daniels, after whom the school was originally named, was born at...
by Sarah Green | Feb 7, 2018 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The winter of 2017-18 is seeing one of the worst flu seasons on record, with 49 states seeing substantial flu activity and 39 of those seeing “especially high activity,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schools, which are particularly...
by Sarah Green | Apr 19, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Although adults are better at paying attention to things, children notice and remember more. A new study from The Ohio State University have found that adults are better at focusing on things they are instructed to focus on than children, but that children given the...
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 | Sep 2, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The state of sex education in America is a shame. Only 13 states require that sex-education be medically accurate, which has led to an explosion of inaccurate, and sometimes even bizarre, sex education courses throughout the country. The main point of most of these...
