Throughout high school you’re always being led up to one final ending point: the SAT. This test that’s always spoken of as if it’s the judgment day of your life combines many different aspects of your education up to that point. But is it really something to worry about all that much or is it [...]
In high school and college, foreign languages become a necessity for a lot of people in a lot of different career paths. They need to be trained in a certain language whether it’s because it can just get them a little bit of a higher paycheck or because they need to speak with foreign diplomats. [...]
Think about when you were in the lower grades of elementary school. There was always one thing that seemed a big odd about the whole thing: most, if not all, of your teachers were women. They could have been young, old, some even pregnant at some point but they all were in fact women. But [...]
Think back to when you were in first grade if you can. They were just teaching you how to print letters and numbers but you just knew, could feel, that something better was on the horizon. Script was coming.
College kids are portrayed by the media as some of the most selfish and dumb people on the planet. According to pop culture, they just go around getting drunk all the time with no time for anyone else. But it turns out that many students don’t really conduct themselves like this. That’s why there are [...]
The term culture shock is thrown around a lot these days. We hear about people moving to the next town over and having their world changed. Parents having children move out or empty nest syndrome as it’s known. But those pale in comparison to the greatest culture shock our generation can possibly understand: if a [...]
Public school teaching is one of the most stable and benefit-laden jobs in existence.. Why is getting tenure so bad? It’s bad for the students. At many schools, the requirement for tenure is for 3 years of experience and approval by the Board of Education. Often, the un-tenured teachers are evaluated for the first three [...]
