by Sarah Green | Nov 22, 2017 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
As the holiday season goes into high gear, you might be struggling with STEM activities that reflect that theme. After all, the best way to get kids engaged in STEM is to provide them with fun activities that inspire their curiosity and problem-solving skills. The...
by Sarah Green | Oct 18, 2017 | Teacher Issues
A lot of the dialogue around teacher shortages revolves around urban areas—and particularly, poor urban areas. But the teacher shortage is affecting rural America, too, especially in the South. Rural areas face some unique challenges as compared to urban ones, and...
by Sarah Green | Oct 4, 2017 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Hurricanes Irma and Maria aren’t the only forces closing schools in embattled Puerto Rico. Out of the island’s 1,460 public schools, approximately 400 were destroyed by the storms and surge and an additional 600 remain without power. And months before this, in May of...
by Sarah Green | Sep 27, 2017 | Student Issues
If your plans after high school include college or technical school, you’re almost certainly going to have to take the SAT. Of course, the prospect of taking a test that has such an impact on your future can be daunting, particularly if there are areas in which you...
by Sarah Green | Sep 20, 2017 | News, Student Issues
While anti-immigration advocates will go on and on about the concept of “anchor babies,” American-born children of undocumented immigrants exploited as a get-out-of-deportation card, there really isn’t any such thing anymore. Between half a million and 800,000...
