Author: Dominique Raboin

Roots & Shoots Intern, Dominique R., discusses service learning as an alternative to testing Too Many Tests If you are, or have recently been, a student in the United States of America, your education most likely revolves around endless waves of test-prep and test-taking. A recent study released by the Council of the Great City Schools announced that students spend up to 25 hours per year on standardized tests alone. That is the equivalent of 112 tests between Pre-K and 12th grade, confirming that the influx of mandated tests during your American education is not just your imagination. Change on the…

Roots & Shoots Intern, Dominique Raboin, considers taking action to help the refugee crisis. Although the mainstream media has turned their attention away from the displaced refugees in Europe, thousands of men, women and childrencontinue to leave their homes on a dangerous journey in hope of seeking asylum in a safer place. The year 2014 saw 59.5 million people forcibly displaced from their homes, making 1 person in every 122 peopleeither a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. Syria is the world’s largest producer of internally displaced people and refugees seeking asylum, totaling 10.5 million people in 2014.Of the 59.5…