by Amy LeForge | Mar 12, 2013 | Education
According to this infographic, literacy results were released in 1993 and 2003. Hopefully new results will come out this year and will be more promising. Thanks to the good folks at Online College Coursess for this infographic.
by Felicia | Mar 6, 2013 | Education
It’s important for children to learn how to appreciate other cultures when they’re young, so they grow up without prejudices and accept others from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Because most children are drawn to art and colorful imagery, sometimes...
by Amy LeForge | Mar 5, 2013 | Education
The question has become an inside joke amongst writers who visit schools and speak to students about the craft. Every writer has been asked hundreds of times, to the point where we’ve each now perfected an answer. Where do you get your ideas? It’s a question with an...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 26, 2013 | Education
We’ll call her Ashley, but she could be almost any high school student in America. She works on her homework at the kitchen table with a television playing loudly in the background, her phone alerting her to check a barrage of incoming text messages, and a computer...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 19, 2013 | Education
For years we’ve been told that the best thing we could do for our kids before sending them off to school was to feed them breakfast. Breakfast, it was said, boosted their brain function and gave them a running start in their education. Now it looks as if we should’ve...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 16, 2013 | Education
Some co-workers and I tried an odd experiment about a year ago. After hearing a friend gush over a delicious meal by saying “I could live on this alone,” I suggested a few of us try to do just that. We each selected one particular food, and vowed to eat nothing else...
