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Our baby is here! George Henry was born at home on Friday evening weighing in at 9lbs 14oz!!!! Big brothers Peter and John were there to enjoy the special moment with us. All of his siblings are totally crazy about him . . . especially 2-year-old Harry who loves to hold him and check on him all the time.I'm mostly hanging out in my room bonding with George, resting, and eating. From past experience, I know that all this quiet time with George will make me more able to return to full-time duties, including the start of our regular homeschool lessons,...

You might think students, their parents and teachers are important stakeholders in public education. But you would be wrong. You know this simply by listening to the vitriolic, big-money opposition to charter schools. Try as they might, public school systems do not deliver equality-of-opportunity educations for lower-income and so-called minority students. Some of the problems – gangs, bullies, drug use, even less-accomplished faculties – impede classroom learning and have proven nearly impossible to overcome. For families with students in such schools, alternatives are few. Many are working and cannot homeschool. Others don’t have the money – after paying all they...

Associated Press Of all the pandemic-fighting tools at the country’s disposal, civility sits in a dusty corner. Other pursuits include the federal government preordering a COVID-19 vaccine, announcing on Wednesday it will purchase 100 million doses of Pfizer’s forthcoming drug should it prove effective in human trials. President Donald Trump thankfully urged Americans to wear masks on Tuesday, and 75% of the population say they are more likely to wear a mask and social distance now than they were last month. Hand-washing remains a constant, as do frantic efforts to contact trace and increase testing capacity. Strongman tactics have infiltrated...

By Linnea Johnson As the summer goes on, schools are refining and finalizing how they will conduct school in the fall. Already, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Diego have declared schools will not re-open physical classrooms and others will follow. Many districts have suggested revised schedules, including part of the students attending one day or week and others another day or week, staggered drop-off and pickup times, mask-wearing at all times, social distancing, food brought from home, and no shared use of common resources. Teacher unions are beginning to object to sending teachers, particularly those in the higher risk age...

— We need to hang on to these essential life lessons even when we start moving forward and go back to whatever new normal awaits us. Think about it, much of how we lived our lives before this point included a ton of social media, a bunch of keeping up with the Jones’, and a sense of financial security and health invincibility because the market was doing well. We as a society were traveling like crazy and doing all kinds of new things without getting sick (according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), tourist arrivals across the globe was supposed to cross 1.5...