by Sarah Green | Jun 27, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“A community without a school…is a vacant community,” Verónica Dávila, a second-grade teacher at a rural Puerto Rico school, told Vox. “It’s actually a dead community.” Puerto Rico’s educational crisis hardly began with Hurricane Maria, but the weather catastrophe has...
by Supporting Education | Aug 9, 2016 | Teacher Issues
In 2004, teaching degrees were awarded to 106,300 students in the US. Even then, that didn’t fill the need. But those numbers have since slipped even further. In 2014, only 98,900 education graduates crossed the boards, and the numbers have continued that...
by Sarah Green | Aug 22, 2014 | News
The school year in Israel is set to begin September 1 despite unfortified buildings and continued civil unrest, said Education Minister Shai Piron. About two million students of all ages are registered, and almost 165,000 teachers and educators are set to open...
by Jana Hoff | Aug 28, 2013 | Parent Issues, Profiles, Teacher Issues
There is a whole population of students who attend schools lacking proper resources. They don’t have books at home and are not prepared for academic success. Thankfully, there is an organization whose mission is to target those exact students and boost them up so...
by Jana Hoff | Jul 17, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Focus sounds like such a positive word. It sounds like the stuff of astronauts and long-distance runners. Yet, the state now uses this term to describe a failing school. It is a school which will go under intense scrutiny and focus until it miraculously changes. ...
