This isn't directed at the young people raising money for their school trips or camp, but the people who decide WHAT they're going to sell. I DO NOT need a box of Krispy Kreme donuts sitting in my kitchen all weekend. Just ONE of those glazed cake things has 370 calories.
Remember how schoolyard romance was all about diplomacy? If you liked a girl, you’d send your friend to tell her friend to tell her how you felt. That’s how us shy kids figured out how to deal with those new, alien feelings we were experiencing. But not this little Romeo.
Oh, he gets by with a little help from his friends, but only to facilitate the most demonstrative ask-out in playground history
MyTudut, Flickr
Fall means school, and school means homework, and homework –- for many a family -– means stress and arguments. But getting homework done doesn’t have to be a daily battle. Here are a few easy ways for parents to make the routine a little easier for kids.
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Stud...
Motown
We've got ten good reason schools shouldn’t be cutting arts budgets: these great songs about their hallowed halls. After all, if they eliminated music classes, who’s gonna write songs about how cool school is?
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Be True to Your School
The Beach Boys, 1963
Good clean fun.
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Wonderful Wor...
Flickr, InParisTexas
A child’s day doesn’t end when the final school bell rings. In fact for many children it’s just beginning. Where to go for ideas? Oddly, pull from what your kids love most about school — and think outside the sandbox. From the physical, to
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The IBM International Foundation and the New York City Public Schools have collaborated to create the new Pathways in Technology Early College High School, which will open in September.
Dubbed “P-Tech,” students can earn a standard four-year diploma, or opt to stay for two extra years — after which they’ll graduate with an associate’s degree in computer science from CUNY’s College of Technology (
An new Missouri law, aimed at protecting children from sexual predators, has made it illegal for teachers and their past and present school-aged students to friend each other on Facebook.