Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Screenshot of UA Onlines website. (Screenshot by: Gloria Knott/Arizona Sonora News)

Online education comparable to traditional learning, but still has flaws

Gloria Knott May 4, 2018

Online classes are convenient. But are they easier? Sometimes the answer is yes. But the majority of the time, research says it’s no. In fact, some research shows that online classes are comparable...

A group of children join together for story time at the Tent for Tots booth at the Tucson Festival of Books. (Photo by: Gloria Knott/Arizona Sonora News Service)

70 percent of 4th-graders don’t read proficiently — what’s the problem?

Gloria Knott April 5, 2018

Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of...

The students enrolled in an Electrical and Computer Engineering course at the University of Arizona are primarily men. Photo by Gloria Knott/Arizona Sonora News Service

It’s 2018. Why is there a gender wage gap?

Gloria Knott March 1, 2018

The gender wage gap is many things. It’s the occupation women choose. It’s the education women pursue. It’s the statistical motherly traits women possess. But after all that, there’s still...

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