Your Child’s End-of-Year Checklist
Whether it’s called “summer slide,” “summer brain drain” or “summer learning loss,” the National Summer Learning Association claims that loss of academic skills over...
Can You Spell Like a Bee Winner?
Here are the winning words from the last 10 years of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
2007: serrefine
2008: guerdon
2009: Laodicean
2010: stromuhr
2011: cymotrichous
2012: guetapens
2013: knaidel
2014 (tie):...
Field Notes
Looking back, my most memorable field trip was one with nearly no educational value. In sixth grade, our eccentric homeroom teacher loaded us onto...
A Different Education
Any parent knows that each child learns in his or her own unique ways, and there is no one way to teach children. For...
Preschool Primer
Community Play School: Messy Engagement
By Mariglynn Edlins, Professor and CPS Parent
We also knew we didn’t want something incredibly expensive or overly focused on traditional learning....
Get Schooled in School Choice
With about a million students across the state of Maryland, it’s safe to say there are a lot of families out there making decisions...
Addressing Domestic Violence
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. About 22 percent of women and 14 percent of men have reported severe physical violence from spouses or...
Literate Disobedience
It’s time for one of my favorite weeks of the year: Banned Books Week! As a kid, books were among my prized possessions and...
Homeschooling Goes Mainstream
All parents want the best education for their children. Sometimes, that means the local public school, and other times it’s a private institution or...
