When my youngest son graduated from nursery school they wanted to keep him back a year. In retrospect I should have done so because he was very tiny and immature for his age. Being the proud parents of a smart child headed for elementary school …
Crows group in murders, sheep stick together in flocks and hippos—the giant river horses that can weigh 5,000-8,000 pounds—travel in schools. That’s right, a group of the mammal whose babies are a whopping 100 pounds at birth (try carrying that tot!) is called a school, …
It feels like there are new test or study results each day that show a lack of some sort of proficiency or other in the U.S. school system. Yesterday, The New York Times reported that American students test far worse in American history than any …
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes My sister’s son, Bartholomew, is a seasoned first grader. Every day, when he comes home, she asks him what happened at school and he replies, “My teacher walked and …