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Colleges welcome the self-motivated learners often found in the homeschool community. It's not for every family, but it has proven successful for many students. With the COVID-19 lockdown, homeschool became the landscape for most families

The June Science Calendar is packed with activities and cool science information that will keep your kids busy, spark creativity and wonder, and teach them along the way! I love putting together the monthly science calendars. My goal is to find something for every age and every interest that will create a love of science. Some kids might not get excited about physics. Sounds boring, right? But, the same kids might get really excited about a roller coaster ride on their trip to a theme park. They might want to know how a roller coaster works and how they are...

A short time ago, a friend mentioned she had recently read a book saying there are very few benefits of studying a dead language like Latin or Greek. The author pointed out that having knowledge of Latin or Greek languages was once useful as you could have read the classics (as they weren’t yet translated into English). But, since that time, these classical books have been translated into English and so learning a dead language is now of little value. The author said that in fact, it may be doing harm as it takes away from the time a student...

Grace's Ghosts by Stephenie Wilson Peterson Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Twelve-year-old Grace and her feline best friend, Midnight, have a secret: Midnight is a ghost. But then again, so are the rest of Graces' friends. Since she's the only person in hundreds of years with the ability to see them, the many ghosts of Tansy have flocked to Grace since birth. She doesn't mind. She prefers the company of the dead to that of the cliquey kids at school. Grace is happy with her strange life, until one day, the ghosts tell her about the secret her town has hidden for centuries. There's a reason...

Big Education ApeTOP POSTS THIS WEEK 5/30/20 ‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch argues in new book that public education advocates have beat back efforts to privatize schools - The Washington Post The real story of New Orleans and its charter schools - The Washington Post Big Education Ape Nite Cap 11-19-12 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2 What Would Re-Opened Schools Look Like? Who Decides? | Ed In The Apple Polls: 20 percent of teachers not likely to return to reopened schools - The Washington Post Seattle Schools Community Forum: District Updates SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news...