by Sarah Green | May 3, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Overall, kids entering the first grade are better readers than they were 12 years ago. This is according to a study from The Ohio State University, which has found that many students are learning in kindergarten the basic reading skills they had been learning in first...
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 | Apr 3, 2017 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Students everywhere have wondered, at some point, why they had to learn about some subject. It is perhaps more common in high schools and colleges, especially in general education courses. Why should one learn about American history when they want to study packaging...
by Sarah Green | Feb 20, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Helping kids get better at math is a struggle for many teachers and parents, not to mention the students themselves. However, it seems like there might be a secret weapon that most of us didn’t expect: physical activity. A study from the University of Copenhagen has...
