Month: March 2021

How history should be taught in American schools is a subject forcefully argued by many different American groups. One example of the ongoing dispute was an effort by the administration…

Claire Brennan Tillberg’s 11-year-old daughter has been hospitalized twice in recent months after sharing that she was having suicidal thoughts. The Massachusetts girl has autism, depression and anxiety. Although her…

The U.S. Department of Justice withdrew a lawsuit last week against Yale University over how it accepts students. In October 2020, the department accused the school in New Haven, Connecticut…

The Decatur, Georgia school system, near the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is in a community full of health professionals. Decatur is a politically liberal area outside…

People involved in higher education are asking: Will universities require students to get the coronavirus vaccine before they come back to school? Many universities already request health information from new…

When we are learning a new language, carrying on a conversation can be difficult. It is even harder when there is the added pressure of doing a job well using…

One of the most important parts of a college application is a student’s list of “extracurricular activities.” A student might be a member of a sports team, spend time tutoring…

Charvi Goyal is a high school student from Dallas, Texas who helps out other classmates by tutoring them between classes. A tutor is someone who teaches one person or a…

Eleven international students have taken legal action against companies and a small community college in the central United States. A lawsuit by the students accuses the companies and college of…

American political leaders are pushing for schools to reopen this winter as teachers started to receive COVID-19 vaccines. But others are concerned that they may not be ready. Last Thursday,…

Last August, The University of Southern California, known as USC, became involved in a dispute over language that appeared widely in U.S. and Chinese news stories. It started with a…

Social studies teachers across the United States are changing their plans for lessons this week. They want to help young people make sense of the news about the violence in…

Joe Clark was a non-traditional high school principal whose unusual way of enforcing rules became the subject of a 1989 Hollywood movie. Clark died late last year at the age…

The United States will soon welcome Joe Biden as its new president. The president-elect has already named several people to serve in government leadership positions. For example, Janet Yellin is…

Cindy Soule is a teacher in Portland, Maine, an area known to have extremely cold and snowy winters. But cold weather is not stopping Soule and her students from continuing…