Education
Rolling Thunder: Racing Across America
For the Rolling Thunder Special Needs Program—a running and wheelchair racing club based in Long Island, New York for athletes with disabilities—the Sunday morning run is the last run of the training week. At 8 AM one Sunday morning in December, the distance runners on the team gathered at the gates of Connetquot State Park [...]
Multiplication Tables? Dismal State of U.S. Mathematics Education
Math Education It always shocks me to see high school students struggling to solve simple arithmetic problems. I happened to casually glance at the algebra homework of a ninth grader one day and saw “3×7 =” written next to a graphing question. Evidently, he did not immediately know the answer and was probably looking for [...]
Methods for Educating Special-Needs Students
Special needs students are often the most challenging to teach yet also the most neglected by politicians and government educational policymakers. The number of students in special education has skyrocketed since the 1980s and only stabilized in the last few years. During the 2008–2009 academic school year, about 6.5 million students aged 3 through 21 [...]
The Struggle between Science and Liberal Education
Since the nineteenth century, the value and compatibility of science in academia has been called into question. In an age that emphasizes industrialization and technological progress, the shift towards more vocational curricula has pushed liberal education to the back burner, giving rise to the notion that students cannot undergo both kinds of learning at the [...]
Cheating Through College: Rational or Not ?
Is cheating through college a rational option, or something different? This article takes a deep look at a pervasive issue at institutions of higher education
Drawing Conclusions: Is There A Divide Between Art and Science?
What is happening to the divide between art and science in the classroom? This article provides an intriguing perspective on this decades old question
Food (and Exercise) for Thought: The Relationship Between Diet, Excercise and Academic Success
Eat. Exercise. Study. These are three activities that should become mainstays to students of higher education. From the moment a college student sets foot on campus, the stress of coping with four years of midterms, problem sets, and essay deadlines begins. Besides the pressures of academia, students will also have to face the prospect of making good life decisions which will impact them further down the road.
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