Category: School

I have written extensively here over the past few months about how this pandemic has affected our children and, in particular, their education. As fall […]

Many parents are trying to figure out how to create a learning space for their children at home, and there are several complicating factors to […]

Scholastic has launched a new Instagram resource called Scholastic Bookshelf , a collection of books on important topics that parents might want to explore with […]

You’ve probably already introduced your kids to wearing masks. (And they probably hate it because we all hate it, but you explained why they should […]

As the number of coronaviruses rises in some areas and remains stable or declines in others, it’s easy to forget where we started. The larger […]

If you are still wondering and discussing what you are going to do with the school this fall, you are not alone. For many parents, […]

One of the benefits of full-time school is the structure it brings to your kids’ day: there is a timetable that students must follow, with […]

This is an ongoing debate in the minds of many parents right now, especially if our school leaders leave the decision to us: Should we […]

It is very likely that our children will spend at least part (or most, or all) of their week learning virtually from home after the […]

Somehow it’s late July, which means some of our kids only have a few weeks to go back to class – or not. School districts […]

A couple of months after the start of the pandemic, my 9-year-old son looked at me and said, “Maybe I’ll take up cooking.” He helped […]

Usually the choice is quite simple: children either go to school to study or are homeschooled. There is usually at least one of these two […]

I’m still looking forward to the moment when the image of the school that will look this fall will change from damn gloomy to something, […]

According to Forbes magazine , US student loan debt jumped to $ 1.56 trillion, spread across 45 million borrowers. With a raging pandemic and more […]

It can be difficult for any child (or an adult, to be honest) to grasp all the changes that we have had to make to […]

High school students this year did not have full graduation experience this year. In many cases, they missed the last few months of school, and […]

The difference between fact and opinion is relevant these days. And in recent years, it has become increasingly clear that this is a difficult concept […]

TED, the people behind the iconic TED Talks, are inviting anyone who recently graduated to upload their own TED Talk graduations to the platform on […]

As the end of the school year approaches and the long summer months approach, I am often asked two questions: Has my son learned everything […]

Every summer, Girls Who Code offers a Summer Immersion Program to help girls learn to apply computer science concepts to personal projects. While this is […]

Most personal graduation ceremonies from high school and college have been canceled this year due to the stay-at-home order. Michelle Obama will host an online […]

In addition to losing normal social life, disrupting classroom routines, and canceling graduation celebrations, many high school and high school students (and even some sophomores) […]

Most of us have been at home with our children for at least a month. My kids have been home since March 6 (but who’s […]

As an avid traveler, it is very difficult for me to be stuck at home right now without any real place to go or travel […]

Our most theatrical children can get tired of the simple one-on-one and puppet shows they put on in the living room. Maybe they played a […]

Being at home more often and the pandemic in general have changed many of our habits. Maybe you’re taking an Ivy League online course, or […]

In the days when kids did go to classes to learn, Netflix made most of its educational documentaries free for teachers who wanted to stream […]

Starting Monday, your kids can enjoy weekly virtual stories with former First Lady Michelle Obama. Obama has partnered with PBS Kids and Random House to […]

The National Air and Space Museum currently houses over 38,640 pages of material covering Sally Ride’s career as a physicist, astronaut, and educator. There is […]

Although the New York Museum of Modern Art is now closed to the public, its virtual doors are open in the form of several free […]

If you’ve always wanted to go to Harvard, now might be the right time: the university offers free access to 64 different online courses to […]

Understandably, parents often convey this homeschooling situation ( I still refuse to call what we are doing now “homeschooling”). In my tapes in social networks […]

Dyson engineers want to know: Are your kids ready for a challenge ? Well, they may not have been there before, but they have been […]

Emails are coming to my inbox fast and furious: PR experts are offering this comment from a homeschooling expert or this homeschooling program to parents […]

When my son asked me yesterday afternoon to help him with math in third grade, my first impulse was to slowly back out of the […]

Homeschooling is proving to be a challenge for almost everyone involved in the coronavirus pandemic, but this new educational reality is especially harsh for one […]

The excess screen time is now largely given. We all do our best to work from home and help our kids complete online learning assignments […]

Dove Pilki, author and illustrator of the children’s book series Captain Cowards and Dogman, is like most of us stuck at home. So he teams […]

The poems that we read over and over again in childhood can stay with us for the rest of our lives. April is National Poetry […]

If you ask a child, any child, what is their favorite part of the school day, you will probably get one of two answers: break […]