Category: School

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 […]

Now that many of us are ( damn it looking) a week and a half of physical distancing – that is, trapped in a house […]

As I write this, I am personally on Day Two of our temporary-but-we-don’t-know- how temporary school closure. For those of you in the same boat, […]

With schools across the country closing and parents trying to either work from home or seek childcare, this can easily be seen as one big […]

At nine, my son and his friends most often crave two things: more independence and more time to hang out. We are also halfway between […]

We like to say that raising a child takes a village, but sometimes this village looks rather sparsely populated. We often do not live in […]

These days I have a certain pattern in the evenings. I am taking my son out of extracurricular care. I’m glad to see him; he’s […]

A few months ago, my son came home from school and asked if he could play another new video game that a friend told him […]

I first heard about the Your Parenting Mojo podcast on another parenting podcast: One Bad Mother . OBM is my favorite because they’re basically two […]

Raising a child with an identified learning disability is a frequent and ongoing advocacy exercise. And perhaps one of the most confusing things these parents […]

This chorus is played all over the world every afternoon or early evening. Parents everywhere ask: “How was school?” And their kids say, “Okay,” far […]

When I was in fifth grade, my family moved to the suburbs of Cincinnati from Illinois. I knew that the only way to keep in […]

If one of your goals for 2020 is to develop more productive habits and increase your own happiness in life, Yale can help you with […]

Many parents would like to fill our children’s bookshelves with a variety of characters, storylines, and family structures. However, it is easier said than done […]

This is my last post as a staff writer for Lifehacker, so I want to give you some meta tips. If you want to learn […]

Helping children develop their news literacy skills is more important than ever, and teaching children to recognize fake news alone is not enough. To develop […]

Reddit users love to ask each other about their favorite funny, mind-blowing, conflicting, or disturbing facts. Every few months, a new ‘fun facts’ thread appears […]

When Jenna Gensick’s son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, she began her research. She has collected the advice of ordinary experts – doctors and […]