by Supporting Education | Apr 11, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In Canada, the average age of a person experiencing their first period is twelve years, nine months. That puts them in approximately seventh grade, and it means they will go through 35 to 40 periods in school before they graduate. For many, periods start about an hour...
by Supporting Education | Mar 6, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Every year, we see the same depressing statistics about disparities in school funding between white and nonwhite areas. And every year there’s much hand-wringing on both sides of the political aisle about how this has to change. And every year, nothing changes. So...
by Supporting Education | Jan 23, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Hamdi Ali, 17, is a Muslim high school student from Edmonton who spent last summer in a research program aimed at helping women and other minorities in STEM subjects. In that time, she made headlines and could possibly have revolutionized a niche of the mining...
by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Food safety is a hot topic in the news this winter, in the wake of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli presumed to be linked to romaine lettuce, and the nationwide caution against eating romaine coming from California. Every restaurant and grocery store around the...
by Supporting Education | Dec 18, 2018 | News
Students at Southern New Hampshire University had an opportunity to give one girl a truly special Christmas present this year. Maggie Sloboda, a four-year-old girl who lives in Massachusetts, loves to ride her bicycle. It’s purple and pink (her favorite colors)...
