The GFW School Board met on Tuesday, January 18 and heard public comment on the state of the district, its programming, and its facilities from a variety of speakers including students, staff members, and parents. Statements touched on a number of issues including programming wants, challenges for academic and athletic…

Being a child is tough, but dealing with final exams on top of growing up makes childhood even tougher. It’s a necessary part of growing up and getting your education, though, so as parents, it’s important to step in and help your child prepare if possible. While you can’t take…

Although math problems can seem divorced from reality, math is actually incredibly useful in daily life. Math is used in cooking and baking, shopping for groceries, deciding on new appliances, and personal finances. In the kitchen, knowledge of fractions and proportions is invaluable. Math is useful to alter recipes to…

Oftentimes, college students go off to school without having all of the information needed in order to succeed. Whether they need to learn about which classes or professors to take, when to take specific classes, or what to do around town locally, they are destined to need help. This is…

Civics forms the basis of any democracy. Students must learn the fundamental values and ideologies that underpin their rights and responsibilities. And in doing so, they learn to carry out a treasured form of government. Below is a brief list of movies that can best help teachers facilitate the learning…

While there are many ways you can go about getting involved in women’s history month and the events surrounding it in March, one of the easiest, most educational, and maybe even one of the most interesting ways to celebrate is through reading books. And what better group of people to…

As one generation of people fulfills their lives, another is constantly rising behind them to follow in their footsteps. Even though the faces of the people inhabiting this earth change over time, the earth they live on remains constant. Just as the older generation has already experienced most of their…

Civics forms the basis of any democracy. Students must learn the fundamental values and ideologies that underpin their rights and responsibilities. And in doing so, they learn to carry out a treasured form of government. Below is a brief list of movies that can best help teachers facilitate the learning…

When one hears about the billions of dollars in government funding that is allocated for education, it can seem astronomical. However, the reality is that these funds go towards fulfilling students’ essential needs. Learning about what public school funding is actually spent on can help demonstrate just how important proper education funding really is. Most Funds Go Towards Instruction An analysis of spending that breaks down budgets based on location found that the biggest expense for every state is instruction. Public schools have to spend massive amounts of money just to hire enough teachers for their students. Sadly, this funding is not actually enough…