The ever growing trend in the educational world of favoring student collaboration and dynamic learning activities over independent study may come at a cost to introverted students. From the arrang...
37 parenting tweets guaranteed to make you laugh every time (Number one gets me without fail.) Your toddler should learn to use a knife. Really. Has your kid ever wondered what it would take to...
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The first day of school has come and gone, but I bet you'll still relate to the wonderful poem "Back to School Blues," sent to us by poet Diana Whitney.
In June 2001, Konstantin Petrov was completing electrical work at the Twin Towers Windows on the World restaurant. As though he knew it would be gone in a few months time, he documented what others...
20 Ways To Involve Your Family In National Arts in Education Week
Every kid deserves access to a high-quality arts education. Research on arts education shows that arts integration in schools improves school climate, student motivation, creativity, perseverance,...
A father passes down his love for science fiction and all things 'geek,' while thinking about how the values of the genre help his son grow as a person.
7 Actual Most Important Things Our Parents Taught Us
1. How to Wash Our Hair This seems silly, but the bottom line is that we definitely don’t all do it the same way. You have your strict folk who lather, rinse, and repeat their shampoo every time, ...
What's The Parent’s Role With Homework?
If we want kids to invest in their education, we have to allow them to take on the responsibility of managing their school and homework.
If you go to a fair without taking a photo of the ferris wheel, did you really even go to the fair? Our Vermont roots couldn't be more proud of our state's Official Word (according to Slate, althou...
I Wanted To Say Something To You, Middle School
?Dear Middle School, I know you. I’ve been you. I’ve walked your halls. I’ve taught in your classrooms. I’ve graded your dog-chewed homework. I know your smells of too-fruity perfume and not-yet-d...
Our kids went back to school this week. Thank you to the teachers who work so hard, even when no one's looking. Watch American kids try lunches from around the world. (Personally, I don't think ...
3 Things We Learned On the First Day of Kindergarten
This morning, we saw our little guy off to kindergarten. He’s the younger of two and there will be no more. So, yeah, it was a big deal—but not in a way that a) we were crying about our grown-up ba...
When I moved to Denver, the third thing I noticed after the sunshine and the walkable brunch spot was the middle school obsession.
Are tablet computers harming our children's ability to read? | Technology | The Guardian
The adoption of the tablet has come on fast and furious. In the 5 years since Apple first launched the iPad, the number of children who have access to tablets has jumped from 7% of 5-15 year olds...
Summer Lessons: What We Learned
We're just a few days away from the first day of school. It feels like school just ended; it also feels like forever ago. Summer went by so fast - too fast for many of us. While summer is still han...
Bedtime Stories for Young Brains - The New York Times
While we don't really need more convincing that curling up with a book is one of the best things we can do with our kids, knowing that it can have long term effects on their brain is a nice bonus...
There's still a chunk of summer left. Promise. Not everyone lives a life with the perfect narrative arc we see in movies or read in books. But how we arrange the plot points of our years can shape ...
Our Favorite School Backpack is Burton's Marvel Day Hiker (Review)
If there's any back-to-school consolation prize, it's the promise of a fresh backpack. Burton's Marvel Youth Day Hiker is our backpack pick of the year.
Ultimate Back-to-School Supply Checklists
Super convenient checklists of school supplies for elementary, middle school, and high school students, with links to our best value picks on Amazon.com.
The irony in rushing my kids down to the beach for a relaxing sunset is not lost on me. Amy Poehler's Smart Girls latest offering, a web series called "Experimenting with Megan Amram" does for STE...
Back to School: A FREE Video Class for Better Family Routines
This free, quick-paced video course from parent educator Vicki Hoefle shows parents how to use back-to-school to implement new (and better) family routines.
There have been plenty of initiatives to promote civic engagement among the teenage set. Harvard's Project Zero program "Children Are Citizens" is bringing that same idea to preschool. Qualitative ...
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