by Supporting Education | Mar 8, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There’s been a lot of research over the past century over the question of classroom discipline. Is “spare the rod, spoil the child,” the way? Time-outs, suspension, expulsion, “school resource officers?” For most of history, discipline has been along those lines....
by Supporting Education | Dec 14, 2020 | News, Student Issues
With winter break either here or only a week away, the first report cards of the 2020-21 school year are going out. And they’re terrible. Schools everywhere in the country are reporting steep dives in the average grades of their students, with several times more...
by Supporting Education | Dec 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
One of the signature events in Houston, Texas is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, also known as RodeoHouston or HLSR. Nearly 90 years old and lasting 20 days in early spring, it’s the largest livestock exhibition in the world. It takes more 35,000 volunteers to...
by Supporting Education | Nov 9, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Moments before stepping on stage at a November 2 campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Trump posted to his Twitter feed: “Just signed an order to establish the 1776 Commission. We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore PATRIOTIC...
by Supporting Education | Jul 1, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In Twin Falls, Idaho, a middling-sized city towards the South edge of the state, yogurt company Chobani operates a plant that added about 7,000 jobs to the area when they moved in in late 2012. That’s more than a tenth of the city’s population, and the plant is the...