Category: Education
IMPACT OF STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM IN STUDENTS’ LIVES
Studying abroad changes the lives of college students.
The Pepin Academies: Unprecedented Opportunities for Exceptional Children
By: Bailey Foster Confusion, frustration, loneliness and helplessness. These are feelings that many children with learning disabilities experience on a daily basis. Most of these children are unable to keep up with their peers, and limited social skills can leave them with the constant sense of being misunderstood or left behind. The Pepin Academies in [...]
USF Program Fosters Young Innovators
Building a training ground for young innovators for our future CEOs, entrepreneurs or anyone who wants to translate a dream into a reality. By nurturing creativity, we can foster a love for education.
National Family Volunteer Day: 10 Simple Ideas to Give Back this Holiday Season
Serving as a family builds on kids’ natural capacity for kindness, teaches them to think of others and to recognize their own blessings. Volunteering together also provides meaningful memories and positive family traditions.
Oasis Youth Hostel: Inspiring our Youth to Make a Difference
Oasis Foyer at Croydon a supported housing project inspires young citizens to engage in social activities, and help them get back into education, pursue their careers and ambitions.
It’s a Gamer’s World: How Video Games Can Aid Learning
By: Sumei FitzGerald The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that 97 percent of teens play video games today, and surprisingly, the three most popular kinds of games are non-violent: racing, puzzles and sports. Most research on video games has focused on their negative effects in terms of aggression, obesity and reduced academic focus, but [...]
A (Reading) Window of Opportunity
By: Janel Healy One Woman Looks to Her Past to Teach Kids How to Read While some teachers focus on the brightest, quickest students, 87-year-old Piper Martin has always been most interested in helping those who’ve been left behind. After being a schoolteacher and private tutor for many years, Martin had seen first-hand how the [...]
Florida Man Builds School, Fosters Community
By: Lindsey Shah Photography By: Krista Sparkman On a random Friday in January, Dr. Thomas Scott, a Floridian man with a passion for helping others, walks into a school cafeteria filled with bright-eyed youngsters sharing their afternoon snacks of milk, sandwiches and potato chips. Within minutes, he is surrounded by children eager to talk to, [...]
The Blue School: Finding Creative Solutions to America’s Education Crisis
By: Anthony Burbidge Three guys, resplendent in sticky blue paint, step on stage and proceed to bang on all manner of percussive instruments fashioned from pipes, PVC tubing, and swinging flexible fiberglass rods. In the ensuing comedic multimedia theatrical experience, throngs of theatergoers fall into a unison of belief in the power of creativity to [...]
Animals Share The Gift of Literacy With Children
By: Jenna Sage Dogs are going to school in an increasing number of communities across the United States thanks to an innovative literacy mentoring program through the Intermountain Therapy Animals’ Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D) program. But it’s not the dogs that are learning, it’s the school children. R.E.A.D is a comprehensive literacy mentoring program [...]
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