Improving student learning is the goal of schools, and Victoria Kornfield does a great job in today’s Bangor Daily News of sharing one clear way we can achieve our goal: make sure students have enough to eat. Other basic needs for children include adequate time playing outside, sleep, and positive relationships with adults. When children’s needs are […]
The way the press reports the story, it’s easy to conclude the main problem with schools is that teachers are a worthless bunch whose motivation is a paycheck and not the education of their students. How then to explain why dozens of teachers are gathered here in Farmington, Maine this week – for neither money […]
Children who live in poverty usually have a harder time than their peers doing well in school. They are often inadequately dressed, poorly fed, sometimes sleep-deprived, and frequently without support at home for homework, thinking about college, aspiring to professions that excite them. The sharp rise in poverty levels in the past decade and a […]
