by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“Safety is key,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom in a press conference the morning of December 30, 2020, about starting to reopen California schools in the near future. “Just reopening a school for in-person instruction on its own is not going to address the...
by Supporting Education | Nov 30, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The Rhodes Scholarship, founded in 1902, is an international award to bring postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford, and it is one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world. Each year, it’s awarded to around 100 students, to cover their...
by Supporting Education | Sep 28, 2020 | News, Student Issues
A study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by a team of researchers from the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University took a good look at how testing rates are affecting the impact of COVID-19 around the country, looking to find the optimal...
by Supporting Education | Sep 14, 2020 | News, Student Issues
With exceptions, most of the United States’ over 50 million public school students have returned to “class” in front of a screen this autumn. For some, school via group chat is just fine, but many parents are concerned that their students aren’t well-suited to the...
by Supporting Education | Sep 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated half a billion people—nearly a third of the population of the planet at the time—and killed between 17 and 50 million, including between 500,000 and 850,000 Americans (the wide variances in numbers are due to...
