by Sarah Green | Feb 8, 2017 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
On February 7, 2017, a historic tie-breaking vote confirmed Betsy DeVos as the next Secretary of Education. Two Republicans voted against DeVos’s confirmation—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—but other than that, the vote fell completely along party...
by Sarah Green | Sep 30, 2016 | Profiles
Emma Yang compares learning to program to finding a superpower or learning to use the Force. It was that powerful to her, right from the beginning. Born in Hong Kong to a STEM household (her father is in computer science, her mother is a mathematician), Yang learned...
by Sarah Green | Sep 26, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A new study from the University of British Columbia has found a link between teacher burnout and student stress. The study found that students in classes with teachers who reported more burnout had higher levels of cortisol, a chemical related to stress. It is unclear...
by Sarah Green | Sep 16, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We’ve become increasingly aware in recent years that bullying is a serious problem faced by children throughout their lives, but that awareness has been focused on the elementary and high school years. According to a recent study appearing in the journal Social...
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...
