How Kids Can Learn to be a Scientist
Experts project significant growth in jobs for scientists over the next few decades. Helping your child understand the breadth of opportunities will make what…
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Scientific Literacy: Why It Matters
Scientific literacy matters, regardless of what career path your child chooses to pursue, the critical thinking skills needed for science will help them succeed…
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Reading is Still Fundamental
As a proud parent and eternal optimist, I believe that, despite our ever-growing list of obligations, we must take time out of our busy…
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How to Prepare your teen for the SAT Reading Test
As you and your teen plan for college, you’ve probably become a little obsessed with admissions tests—like the SAT—and how to help your student…
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Home Visiting – Flipping the Family Engagement Script
For the first 10 years that Jerome D. Mack Middle School, Las Vegas, Nev., was open, skin color, religious preferences, gang affiliation, language skills—and most…
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Poetry & Prose: Kwame Alexander’s #Bookish Life
If you asked poet and New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander how he developed a love of reading, he would laugh and tell…
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What Kids Should Be Reading
In our hurried lives, it’s not easy to find the time to browse and discover books—but you can get creative and work together as…
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One Book at a Time: Planning For Your Child’s Future
The arrival of March brings thoughts of spring and a season of growth and hope. Leo Tolstoy wrote that “Spring is the time of…
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Got Winter? Watch These Fun Facts with Your Kids
Whether you are snowed at home or watching the “bomb cyclone” from a warm and sunny location, you can use winter storms to teach…
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Starting the College Search: How Parents Can Help
Finding a college that is a good fit and affordable for your teen can be overwhelming with thousands of colleges to choose from. There…
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