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 20, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the seven schools of Geelong, Australia, an unusual program is part of the beginning of every school year. Students are given a survey with nearly 100 questions probing into their living status: Do you feel safe at home? Are you confident you’ll have enough...
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...
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...
by Supporting Education | Nov 29, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Most universities require their students to carry some kind of health coverage, meeting whatever standard the university requires. They’re allowed to set adequate (which they’re allowed to define) coverage as a condition of enrollment, and they are allowed to sell...
