Desks, letter books and math worksheets in preschool. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to figure out preschool is no longer about learning to sit on the circle rug without touching the kid on the next color. Today’s early childhood education only vaguely resembles my own brief stint at Lolliopop Nursery …
You’re a parent who wants your child to thrive academically. You read about a new software program that claims to boost math scores in middle schoolers in less than one month, and you wonder if it would help your child’s mediocre math grades. Your school is trying out a new …
Last week I said I’d write more about Paul Tough’s best-selling book How Children Succeed. Then I had another peek inside one of the best if not best parenting books around today, Ellen Galinsky’s Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, another take on roughly …
Don’t skip the school book fair. Don’t even think about recycling the book flyer coming home in the back pack. Don’t even try to deny your child the boxed set of Captain Underpants. Books in the home make better readers. Subtext: Buying books for your kids will make them smarter. Says who? Scholastic, the “read every day. lead a better …
So President Obama referenced that new teacher study in recent news in his State of the Union address last night. The education study with 2.5 million school kids tracked over 20 years, the very one I posted on a few weeks ago so it was very fresh in my mind. Yours too? The Prez spoke about education, including higher education, …