by Supporting Education | Jan 17, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In 2009, then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, under the direction of the Obama administration, took a dramatic $7 billion step towards improving poor schools around the country. They used the testing models of the No Child Left Behind Act to identify...
by Supporting Education | Jan 10, 2020 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
In 2019, 87 people in Western Washington, mostly in Kent and Issaquah were infected in two measles outbreaks. Measles, a highly infectious airborne virus, is a disease that was almost gone from the developed world, but still directly responsible for tens of thousands...
by Supporting Education | Jan 3, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
On December 14, at the David D. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, seven of the leading contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination spoke about their goals for American education. This is a time when American academic performance is...
by Supporting Education | Dec 19, 2019 | News, Student Issues
At the center of the scandals involving for-profit colleges has been dishonesty about the value of their education. The schools under the Corinthian Colleges umbrella, which were all closed abruptly in 2015, lost their accreditation over their written promises that...
by Supporting Education | Dec 9, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
It feels like there’s always some crisis going on with teachers these days. Every news cycle, teachers are striking for better pay, more support, more staff. Their complaints are valid; many primary school teachers are paid so little they qualify for government...
