by Supporting Education | Jul 3, 2013 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Supposedly, education has nothing to do with what you wear. Yet, it has enough to do with it that students have been asked to go home and change and have even been expelled for it. Most schools have a dress code even if that doesn’t include a uniform. Most children...
by Supporting Education | Jun 19, 2013 | Parent Issues, Profiles, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
When parents and teachers get together, amazing things happen. Making the impossible possible is what this group seems to do. The National PTA, or National Parent Teacher Association, is an organization devoted to improving education, health and safety of children...
by Supporting Education | Jun 17, 2013 | News, Student Issues
In a move sure to be warmly met by all students with cell phones, President Obama has said he hopes to get high-speed Internet into most schools within five years. Obama spoke to a crowd in the gymnasium at Mooresville Middle Schools in North Carolina to demonstrate...
by Supporting Education | Jun 14, 2013 | News
Last week, the New York City Housing Authority celebrated the opening of a brand new school building and community center at the Nicholas Houses, one of its developments. The building is five floors, will host the K-12 Promise Academy I Charter School, and provides a...
by Sarah Green | May 13, 2013 | News
Toxic environments can make a potentially great job terrible, a once happy family miserable, and a place of learning detrimental. And according to one Southeastern Louisiana University professor, James D. Kirylo, that’s just what standardized tests are doing to our...
