by Sarah Green | Sep 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues
It is a statistical truth that richer schools are given more money, in the US public school system. It’s a cycle of advantage—richer schools attract better, more experienced teachers, who require higher salaries and better facilities, which needs more money, which...
by Sarah Green | Sep 12, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Strictly speaking, Facebook doesn’t want anyone to have an account before the age of 13. Twitter, too. But there’s no one checking ID. Children today grow up with the internet as a presence they interact with all the time, omnipresent in home and school. Most...
by Sarah Green | Sep 5, 2016 | News, Student Issues
President Obama at the National Medal of Science ceremony. Photo: Jose Gil / Shutterstock.com President Obama is a nerd. A lot of people describe themselves as nerds these days, and some people think it’s “in” to be nerdy, while others resent that because they used to...
by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Educational news often talks about student truancy as an epidemic, a growing threat to student progress. But there’s another kind of absenteeism doing its own quiet harm – teachers. In Nevada, it’s a serious and growing problem. According to a 2016 study...
by Sarah Green | Apr 13, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Facebook, while an outlier in terms of scale, is just one example of the boom of entrepreneurship among college students. Mark Zuckerberg was a freshman when he launched thefacebook.com in 2004, and now he is one of the 100 wealthiest people in the world. Facebook...
