by Sarah Green | Mar 30, 2016 | News, Student Issues
According to a University of Saskatchewan accounting professor, making things easy for students doesn’t help them learn as much as making things difficult. Specifically, Fred Phillips, who has been teaching at the Edwards School of Business for 20 years, found that...
by Sarah Green | Jan 22, 2016 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A coordinated wave of bomb threats put nine North Jersey school districts on lock-down this week. And happily, they were a hoax. But they pointed out a big problem for schools in the middle of an emergency like that – the hoard of parents flocking to the rescue. Even...
by Sarah Green | Jan 19, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Refugees out of Syria are the largest news story worldwide as we enter 2016. A lot of questionable facts are tossed around about this demographic, but the statistics are in, and easy to find. And the truth of the matter is that more than half of these asylum-seekers...
by Sarah Green | Dec 15, 2015 | News
Just a matter of weeks before school started in September this year, New Mexico schools put out an emergency call for more teachers. Just one district cited a shortage of more than 250 teacher positions open. And that wasn’t the first year, either. Like many...
by Sarah Green | Dec 7, 2015 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Parental aspiration for their children’s academic performance, the hopes or expectations that their kids will receive certain grades, can be a double edged sword. On the one hand, in moderation and with realistic goals, parental aspirations can help students achieve...
