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 | Sep 5, 2019 | News
While American parents wait (and wait, and wait, and wait) to see what the country will do to help prevent mass shootings, like many other developed countries have done, some people are taking the issues into their own hands. Parents are buying bullet-resistant...
by Supporting Education | Aug 30, 2019 | Student Issues
As September begins, most students in the U.S. are either back in school or about to be so. For many, getting back into the habit of studying and retaining so much information is daunting, even exhausting. So here are a few tricks to try out. 1. Set yourself up for...
by Supporting Education | Aug 23, 2019 | News, Student Issues
If you’re like most adults in the United States, you attended a school that employed a full-time librarian. Not just someone who stocked the shelves and kept the records, but an actual librarian, whose field of study was research and teaching and who was there to pass...
by Supporting Education | Aug 16, 2019 | News
According to a survey by the National Retail Foundation, in 2018 the average parent of elementary school-age kids spent nearly $125 on school supplies per student, excluding clothes and electronics (if you include those, the average is over $630). From pencils to...
by Supporting Education | Aug 9, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007, was meant to help professionals struggling under mounting education costs. Ideally, someone with federal student loan debt who works for a qualifying employer for 10 years while paying down their debt would...
by Supporting Education | Aug 2, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Like many schools, Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania struggles with the issue of lunch debt. In the 2018-19 school year, students who could not afford to pay for breakfasts and lunches racked up a total of over $20,000 in debt across the district....
by Supporting Education | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In a lawsuit brought by students and parents to federal court over the state of Rhode Island’s education—particularly the lack of civics education among its students—the state’s department of education has an interesting defense. They’re not claiming the students are...
by Supporting Education | Jul 12, 2019 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is a discrepancy in the numbers that come out of rural schools. They have higher graduation rates than urban schools (80 percent vs. 68 percent), but graduates of rural schools are less likely to go to college or finish their degrees. The numbers suggest that...
by Supporting Education | Jul 5, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Every vehicle on the road requires seat belts, except for buses. It feels like an accident of lawmaking: the highest-density vehicles don’t require their 15 to 75 passengers to be restrained, including school buses carrying children as young as 4. School bus accidents...
