by Supporting Education | Oct 12, 2020 | News, Student Issues
For many students in the U.S., the new school year comes with online classes, teleconferencing via Zoom, Discord, or other platforms. These online courses are the prudent choice, versus the disease risk of in-person education, but they come with their own stresses,...
by Supporting Education | Aug 17, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“The emergency remote learning that took place as a result of COVID-19 school closures brought to light disparities in our school communities that made student learning difficult in the pandemic environment,” said South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly...
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 | May 29, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
At the beginning of April, several weeks after nearly all schools in the United States were shuttered, 4,000 teachers in South Carolina were surveyed about how remote teaching was going. More than 80 percent of those teachers reported that at least one of their...
by Supporting Education | May 1, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The SAT, that tool of college admission, has always been a communal experience – a few hundred students in a gym or lecture hall, each at their own desk, quietly scratching away at the standardized questions under the eyes of a team of proctors. But in light of the...
