Colleges can be tricky places to navigate. They are especially tricky when a university student encounters a professor who acts in inappropriate ways toward the student, such as by targeting them for termination or retaliating against the student for perceived offenses against the professor. College students often won’t take action
Did you dread exercise as a student or did you long to run and play kickball during math or English instruction? It seems that the time allotted for Physical Education (PE) has dwindled over the years, but California students still have a right to receive PE in school on a
Students often seem to chug along unnoticed. Students go to school and do homework and on and on like a spinning wheel. What if a school administrator calls and says a student has been referred for an “SST meeting?” What is this “SST” and should a parent get one? What
As we all know, our kids are required to take state mandated educational tests, such as the CAASPP (California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress), to evaluate where they are in relation to grade level standards. Most parents have their kids participate. However, parents may exempt their child from these
When I heard about the group of school districts in Atlanta Georgia purposefully altering students’ state test answers to raise the overall scores and get more funding, I would not say I was surprised, but I was saddened. Cheating by school districts does occur. For example, in 2012, a Texas
The National Association of Educational Science (NAES) released the test results for many of our nation’s children showing a distinct weakness in the sciences. For example of 300 possible points, the average score was between 147-153. If graded in the traditional way, this would be an “F.” The United States
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