by Sarah Green | May 19, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Across colleges around the United States, students have been proposing ‘trigger warnings’ for the materials they will be reading, watching and/or discussing. A ‘trigger warning’ is an alert on explicit materials that may upset some students. These can include scenes...
by Sarah Green | Apr 21, 2014 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Many students entering college directly from high school feel intimidated. Most worry about the expectations of what they need to retain from high school in the fields of math, science and history. It might surprise you to discover that it isn’t what you know, but how...
by Sarah Green | Nov 27, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
When the economy crashed in late 2007, Americans watched helplessly as family members and friends were laid off from jobs, had their hours cut, and as a consequence couldn’t pay their mortgages. Millions of homes were foreclosed on. In the academic years 2004-2005,...