by Amy LeForge | Sep 25, 2012 | Education
Over the past decade there’s been a growing number of people who have pointed out the disparity between girls and boys when it comes to reading. Why aren’t more boys picking up books? Based on observation alone, I’m confident that one of the culprits has to do with...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 18, 2012 | Education
Excerpted from Smart Is Cool, to be published in 2013, by Dom Testa We can emphasize the benefits of academic achievement to today’s students by teaching the fine art of visualization. In other words, show them the future. Young people are so focused on the here and...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 15, 2012 | Home Schooling
Home schooling in the USA has evolved rapidly since it first came to widespread public attention, after many years of being limited mainly to rural areas. With an estimated two million or more home-schooled students across the USA, it’s still a minority, but...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 13, 2012 | Education
I was blessed to receive a review copy of the In-Sync Activity Cards, a companion to the book Growing an In-Sync Child by Joye Newman and Carol Kranowitz. I haven’t read the book, but if it’s anything like the cards then you really might enjoy it! The...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 11, 2012 | Education
On August 6th, a robotic contraption – about the size of a Mini Cooper – landed on the surface of another world after an eight month trip and a mind-blowing maneuver that brought it gently to the dusty ground. That same day, headlines on our own world were...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 4, 2012 | Education
Editor’s note: Please welcome again Dom Testa with a syndicated parenting column. Dom will be a regular contributor to Earnest Parenting. There has been a perpetual buzz from politicians and activists over the last twenty years about “fixing education.” And yet...
