by Supporting Education | Mar 30, 2020 | News, Student Issues
For some students, school-provided meals are the only thing they get to eat on weekdays—or, at least, the only healthy thing. The COVID-19 crisis is bringing to light another crisis: the student food security crisis. But some school districts, with the help of special...
by Supporting Education | Mar 6, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The University of Southern California (USC), located to the southwest of downtown Los Angeles, is one of the oldest private universities in California. It’s nearly 140 years old. As of the 2018-19 school year, it had just shy of 50,000 students, about 20,000 of those...
by Supporting Education | Feb 28, 2020 | News, Student Issues
One of the differences between high school and college that takes some getting used to is that in college, you have real standing to talk your teachers into giving you a better grade. In fact, according to a survey by two professors of economics, Cher Li and Basit...
by Supporting Education | Feb 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Close to a million Rohingya refugees live in massive refugee camps in Bangladesh, waiting for the day when they can someday return home to Myanmar, which denied them citizenship, basic rights, and protection when religious zealots began a genocide upon them. Nearly...
by Supporting Education | Jan 27, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Washington State had seen a disturbing trend among its adolescents in the past few years; a climbing rate of STDs. Since 2014, according to the Washington State Department of Health, syphilis and gonorrhea rates have both increased by over 70 percent in the...
