Tag: students
Topic of the day: Single-sex schooling
By Morgan on November 29th, 2011
I’m a graduate of public schools, from my pre-K days to my college years, where girls and boys burned things in chemistry labs and ran laps in gym classes, together. So maybe it’s because I didn’t have the option, or maybe it’s thanks to mymore… full post
Why cheat? And what can we do about it?
By Alex on October 26th, 2011
“You will have 3 hours and 45 minutes to work on this test.” These are words that most high school students dread hearing—or, in some cases, are paying others to hear for them. The recent scandal where high school students paid a collegemore… full post
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. How are you working to stop bullying?
By Guest Blogger on October 4th, 2011
We loved Alex Wladich’s first OOM post so much, we had to ask her back for more. Below, she tells us about an issue near and dear to her heart: bullying. Thanks, Alex! When I was in high school, a new website launched that became the talk of themore… full post
15 things
By Morgan on October 3rd, 2011
We were pretty impressed with the 15 things students want the nation to know about education, from an article by Lisa Nielsen in the Huffington Post. As we here at Scholastic continue reflecting on this past week’s Education Nation events, themore… full post
How students can help make an environmental impact in their community
By Ivy on September 17th, 2011
When I was in middle school we studied everything from the planets in the solar system (yes, Pluto was still a planet in my childhood) to geography. The one topic we didn’t study as much was the environment…and I grew up in Berkeley, CA! But,more… full post
On the need for STEM and Art
By Scholastic on July 21st, 2008
David Warlick posted this morning about the need for a marriage between STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) and the Arts today and, while I think hope that we’d be hard pressed to find someone who disagreed with his point that, STEMmore… full post
