Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
My neighbors and I are enjoying watching a Red-tailed Hawk family grow up. There are two baby chicks who are now fully-fledged teenagers with keys to the car. They can be seen swooping around from tree to tree and they are a raucous bunch; noisy, playful, and fun! Their arrival this spring has made birdwatchers…
I was inspired to make my own Zine after watching this video. This dad made Zines to put in his son’s lunch box. How To Make a Zine from a Single Piece of Paper (for lunch box notes) He references this book on how to make a Zine: I had watched Little Furry Peach make…
It might seem like it’s tough to get recruited for college sports during COVID-19 with the spring season canceled for most youth sports teams but my co-author of The Elusive Full Ride Scholarship: An Insider’s Guide, Alison Foley, says that now is actually a good time to communicate with coaches. She shares her advice in…
Thanks to modern blended learning techniques and technologies, education doesn’t have to stop when your child leaves the classroom. Today’s kids can use online and digital tools to engage with material on their own time and at their own pace, in addition to, or even instead of, traditional face-to-face lessons with educators. Whether you send…
I’ve always felt bad for Vincent Van Gogh. He suffered from mental illness and struggled with poverty all his life. During his lifetime, his work was unknown and the feedback he got was negative. He would never know that his work would be setting records for highest painting ever sold, or that millions up millions…