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Online Summer School

Some school districts across the country have wrestled with budget shortfalls in a myriad of creative ways, but some school districts have chosen to reduce the cost of offering summer school by having all summer school courses taught online.  A recent post by Collin Binkley on The Columbus Dispatch education blog, “Online Summer School Has [...]

Young Children and Background TV

Recently, parents have been warned that too much screen time (30 minutes daily) is very unhealthy for very young children; it impedes their learning and can affect their ability to focus and sustain attention.  So, most parents do not allow their very young children to sit in front of a screen for more than 30 [...]

Summer Math Ideas

Children all across the country have either just completed the school year or have just a few more weeks before it ends.  Of course, they are looking forward to long, lazy days that will require none of their typical school-day routine, and that includes none of the academic demands or mental rigor that their educators [...]

Sleep to Improve Memory

Memories of cramming for exams might surface when one reads about the results of a new study from the University of Notre Dame.  Notre Dame Psychologist, Jessica Payne, and colleagues studied the two kinds of declarative memory (the ability to consciously remember facts and event). Declarative memory can be broken down into episodic memory (memory [...]

Math 101: Differentiated Instruction the New Norm?

It’s no secret that mathematics is one of the greatest educational challenges for many students in the United States. The most recent PISA figures, or, Program for International Student Assessment, showed that while American 15-year-olds scored “at the international average of industrialized nations in science and reading,” they were “below the international average in math.” [...]