Tag: education
Near the Grand Husseini Mosque, on a street that was once the Amman River, there is a bookshop like no other. Hamzeh AlMaaytah (36) runs a 24-hour “emergency room …
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain It’s probably no surprise to learn that the American bookworm is …
Melanie Weaver
February 11, 2017
African American, Autobiography, Classics, Historical Fiction, Indian Literature, Mental Health, Native American, Non-Fiction, Self-Help, TBR
The college years are some of the most formative of our lives; it’s where we learn who we are and what we believe (and how to defend those beliefs). …
In the closest ever Senate vote, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Trump’s Education Secretary. But it’s not just senators who are concerned about DeVos’s ability to effectively serve …
Kids and teachers are returning to school from holiday break. How will they be spending their time? If Sara Holbrook were in charge, they wouldn’t be practicing for standardized …
The further students pursue an education, the more they are required to use critical analysis; this is no exception for reading. Whether you are a student intent on developing your critical …
An Illinois school district has recently pulled one book off its junior English curriculum and is opening up a public forum of debate over the rest of the reading …
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ~ John Dewey The right of every child to a free public education is one of the cornerstones of …
Every year my kids’ school hosts the school pumpkin patch as part of the Fall Festival. Each classroom picks a book and decorates a pumpkin based on the book. If …
TV doesn’t have to be a bad thing in children’s lives. It’s so easy to use TV as a free babysitter–a babysitter that stereotypically makes kids lethargic and ignorant–that …
As we advance through the Contemporary Period, modern society is developing technologies at an increasingly fast rate. Every year, we see the rise of yet another more advanced smartphone, …
August is spinning faster and faster and in no time, the kiddos will be back in school, learning about everything from Shakespeare to the Pythagorean Theorem, and if it’s …
For as much *snobbery* as there is surrounding the preference for physical books whose paper pages you can flip through and smell, a Rwandan village shows us how the “e” …
Intellectual and academic freedom are dead and buried. Or at least that certainly seems to be the message coming from a school system in Connecticut which forced an award-winning …