How do you teach empathy, problem solving, and emotion management to your students? The best way is to help students to struggle with real and complex problems that the world faces every day. Having conversations on topics like racism, genocide, school shootings, and other violence is challenging. However, discussing these issues brings understanding. Prepare yourself…
For international students to study in US, the students need to be proficient in written and spoken English. To check the proficiency, the students are required to write a standardized test knows as the TOEFL, or Test of English as a Foreign Language. The test comprises of four sections: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The…
There are around 51 million K-12 students, only about 9 million students attend rural schools. These students comprise of one-sixth of the nation’s student body. Even then, rural education in general is left unheeded in debates about education policy. Many educators are looking to change this picture. Few students at Harvard’s one year master’s program…
An extra year at school can make your child smarter: A recent study suggests that if your child goes for an extra year of education then it may leave him with new knowledge and an increased IQ. The increase in IQ of children ranged from 1.197 IQ points to 5.229 IQ points. The average increase…
United States is infamous for having the most expensive college education in the world. Some families even go into debt to afford it. No doubt that even the quality of education is the best. A study says that more than 40 million Americans are in education debt, 14% of these owe at least $50,000. But…
Education is all about creativity. Have a look at how some minor classroom developments are transforming the primary education landscape for better. Flexible seats The days are gone when primary school children had to sit in desks organized in neat rows. The classroom of today, has flexible seating with options such as bean bags, mini…
The methodology which is used to grade students is highly personal and also deeply embedded in a traditional system craving for numbers and letters. Majority of people who have studied in an American Education System have gone through this grading but they never knew that there were alternatives. In reality, we often stick with whatever…
Every year,medical students graduate with hundreds of thousands in debt. The median debt burden was $190,000 last year on US medical school graduates. The idea of graduating medical school debt-free may seem impossible, but few medical students have the privilege of receiving a free medical education. Either it is because they attend a tuition free…
The first thing to understand is that this post is not anti-college. If your kid needs a college education to get where he wants to be professionally and you can afford it, then you should go ahead and take it. College in itself is a rewarding experience and benefits an individual a lot. Here are…
The time has come when the annual result of most of the classes are announced. We expect that your little angel might have come out with flying colors or even bagged a position in his class. Whichever is the case, studies show that when parents take keen interest in child’s after-school study time then their…