Category: Blog
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The Air Isn’t Fair
After protest chants of “I can’t breath!,” have faded from our streets, we can look at another important social and equity issue: Poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) affecting millions of students in our schools. For decades, schools–especially schools in low income districts–have been failing to provide students with the level of air quality which we…
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How can Students Learn Science Without Doing Science?
The experiment we are running in most science classes is whether students can learn science without doing science. And this experiment is failing our students. Yes, you can get students to memorize the periodic table and fill in the bubbles on biology tests by studying books and doing worksheets. If you push them hard, you…
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Experiment US
Cool Green Schools runs the Experiment You project to help students study and improve their health and learning. America has been running the Experiment US project since 1776, offering citizens the right to study their choices and choose a path forward. Today offers us another chance to make decisions that can make our country, our…
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Learning to Live In Baltimore
How schools can improve the health of students and their communities The 2017 Neighborhood Health Report by the Baltimore City Health Department is hard to read. It spells out the stark disparities and desperation in our city with a clarity…
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Students Test Their Schools
Students Test their Schools Students at Patterson High School and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute are about to get new science and environmental health laboratories: their schools. Johns Hopkins and Cool Green Schools are partnering on a community research grant to provide three classes of high school students with mentors, testing equipment, and funding so they can…
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Threading Baltimore Together
Sarah Hemminger is out to save Baltimore the hard way–with the love and care of strangers. Since founding Thread in 2004 with her husband, Ryan, the program has been surrounding failing students with mentors to support them through their high school and college years. Selecting their students from the bottom 25 percent…