For a multitude of reasons, teachers are leaving the profession at a significant rate 鈥� so much so that we are facing a teacher shortage. To further exacerbate the problem, since 2009, the number of newly issued in-state instructional teaching certificates has dropped by 71%, according to the ...
Even if you are at an age where you鈥檝e already attended a couple of class reunions, it鈥檚 still possible to feel a twinge of melancholy when you see back-to-school sales in stores, or when you see the blinking lights of a yellow school bus on a street early on a warm August morning.Who can ...
It鈥檚 back-to-school time, and that means it鈥檚 the season for news reports on how much teachers spend out of their own pockets on supplies for their classrooms.Inevitably, these stories shed light on the level of dedication teachers have, even when many of them are not adequately paid, and ...
鈥淗igh Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,鈥� by Amanda Ripley, is a book about the trap of high conflict. It鈥檚 described as a guideline to reconnect with our enemies and opponents while allowing us to revive our curiosity as we continue to advance our own beliefs. The book ...
Since their inception in 2002, public cyber charter schools have been a thorn in the side of school districts and traditional public education establishment organizations across the state.Suffice it to say that traditional public schools don鈥檛 like competition, and many supporters of the ...
Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry.Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was not ...
