The burgeoning use of Internet technologies in the classroom has enabled students to explore a nearly limitless reservoir of human knowledge. In the past four years, however, major research organizations from across the globe have begun to offer students not only access to their findings but also a way to actively participate in gathering, sorting, and analyzing scientific data. Open Air Laboratories, or [...]
As many schools across the country enter their final month, they are another year closer to a drastic change that has been looming for a while. In 2010, the Common Core State Standards (or just the “Standards,” as the Common Core State Standards website refers to them) were developed and introduced. Since then, 45 out of the 50 states, along with a number [...]
Hayley Gundlach began working at PSG as an intern in the summer of 2013. Upon completing her internship, she was hired as an editorial assistant. Hayley recently began her senior year at Emerson College. Hayley Gundlach’s dream jobs are to either become an editor at a large trade publisher or a consultant working on adapting books into films. Determined and studious, Hayley’s organizational [...]
Chicago-based high school student Lane Gunderman will be one of the few kids starting their college career on a full scholarship at Stanford University this fall, but he is also one of the extremely few students in the history of the school who was homeless when he earned his scholarship. Gunderman’s family had always been poor, but six years ago, they were forced to move [...]
When asked by his lawyer where he wanted his earnings to go after his death, C.S. Lewis famously told the man, “After I’ve been dead five years, no one will read anything I’ve written.” Now, 50 years after his death, the C.S. Lewis Foundation is throwing a yearlong celebration to honor Lewis’s legacy. The 50th Anniversary Celebration will last from July 2013 to August [...]
Everyone reacts differently to taking a test. There are the superstitious who wear charms or have rituals that must be done before test day. There are those who get nervous; just the thought of having to take the test makes them sick. There are those who don’t give the test a second thought until the day of. And there are even those who [...]
More than ever before, schools have been striving to afford each child an equal opportunity to succeed. Unfortunately, many children may enter school with a disadvantage based simply on their parents’ professions and where they live. By the time they begin preschool, children know quite a few words. According to Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, [...]
Rather than sentence them to juvenile prison, taking away their opportunity to continue learning in a safe environment, Tennessee’s Carroll Academy, located in Huntingdon (100 miles east of Memphis and 100 miles west of Nashville) gives their “troubled” students a way to get their lives back. In Huntingdon, Tennessee, drug use is the norm. The New York Times provides figures from the Tennessee [...]
We’ve all experienced that moment where someone next to you, whether at school or in the office, starts to show the first symptoms of a cold. You know that by the week’s end, you—and probably everyone around you—will be sick. The theory of social contagion is the same, except that instead of spreading viruses, you’re spreading behaviors. Students at a high school in [...]
With funding for and focus on the arts in decline, it’s reassuring to know there is a foundation explicitly dedicated to finding and supporting the next generation of artists. The National YoungArts Foundation, founded in 1981 by Ted and Lin Arison, has supported thousands of these artists already, and many have grown to become leading professionals in their fields. YoungArts touches the lives of [...]