by Supporting Education | Aug 10, 2020 | News, Student Issues
As the COVID-19 crisis gathered momentum in the spring, colleges and universities around the United States moved to remote learning. The measure was absolutely necessary to protect the public, but it left most students disappointed with the quality of the online-only...
by Supporting Education | Sep 17, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
Last year, a survey by the federal Department of Education found that 94 percent of U.S. public school teachers pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, without reimbursement, and that they spend an average of nearly $500 a year doing so. Purchase by teachers range...
by Supporting Education | Apr 4, 2019 | News, Student Issues
The toy box, it is said, is every child’s first school. The things we play with as children have a powerful influence over the direction of our lives. Building toys such as Lego blocks have long been lauded as useful tools in laying a foundation for engineering,...
by Sarah Green | Mar 7, 2018 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
This generation in education is going to be remembered as an era of technological leaps. The internet, tablets, and “disrupting” educational traditions with new technologies are all a part of the educational landscape right now, and none of these will be going away....
by Sarah Green | Dec 13, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Tiernan Kriner is eight years old, attends, Maine Memorial Elementary, and likes technology and robots. He’s also sick. Tiernan has Fanconi anemia, an inherited disease that makes him seven-hundred times more prone to cancer than the average person, as well as prone...
