Making your kid pay for college is good, study says

Afghan girls poisoned in anti-education attack

Placticando en la Playa - ¿Como estás?

Welcome back to our little palapa on the beach:) After an extended spring-break, it's time to get back to work on your Spanish... If you'd like to review lesson one, you can find it aquí last time we learned the verb ser, today we'll be learing about it's evil-twin, estar. …

I've long been a big friend of audio books for road trips.  There a great way to pass the time and engage the mind

Wonder why more people don't teach??

Ruso Files - Что это?

Alright, now that you know how to read, let's get started! (If you don't know how to read, you an find out here) We'll begin by learning to answer a simple question - Что это? (what's this/that?) and in the process we'll see just how simple and easy the Russian language rea …

Facebook stock up slightly in public debut "Facebook stock up slightly in first day of trading after raking in $16 billion in IPO"  

What End of Bush Tax Cuts Means for You

Children as young as four are to start learning two foreign languages under a radical plan unveiled by Scottish ministers to make them more employable when they enter the job market. Alasdair Allan, the SNP Learning Minister, said that within a decade all pupils will start lea …

School vouchers have long been a pet cause of Christian school advocates who want to shore up profits and increase their ranks. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court ruled that public funds designated for private school tuition were not an infringement on church/st …

Equal Money, to support our children absolutely. Time to stop a debt based system that is serving (self) interest for the few and not supportive of life within the principle that was stated by Jesus, to give as you would like to receive, the words of equality and oneness. He who …

Leaving food uneaten may cost you at some restaurants.  

"Built proportionally to the ancient temple's true size, the solid chocolate pyramid is six feet tall and its base measures 10 feet by 10 feet ~ exactly one-third the size. The sculpture's base alone weighs more than 3,000 Pound's."

Michael Wilson, an openly gay librarian at Shorter University, signed the university's amended contract after crossing out the "lifestyle statement" requiring all employees to reject, amongst other practices, homosexuality.

Our Gift to Our Children, a Gift to Me From keith in DSM

This is a very moving video yet so essential in how we must teach our children to connect to others. Our survival depends upon this.

Never buy car insurance again?  

Tyree Brown, a junior at Suitland High School, won the 2012 Congressional Art Competition for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District for her painting “The Hidden Vent.” Brown’s artwork was selected Saturday evening at the Harmony Hall Regional Center in  …

LA mall bans boxing champ for anti-gay commentary  

Taxmageddon sparks rising anxiety  

Consumer Reports: Junk health food is still junk food

Children should not have to start school until they are six to prevent early 'adultification', an academic has claimed. Going against conventional wisdom that their intellect should be fed and stimulated early on, education expert Dr Richard House says that over-emphasis on th …

You might expect that documented child abuse, in a public school, with many reports by teachers, school nurses, and staff, would automatically result in criminal charges -at least against the teacher actually doing the abusing.

Indian-American Pradeep Khosla named Chancellor of UC

Pradeep Khosla, an Indian-American IIT alumnus, currently working as the dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University has been named as the eight chacellor of the University of California (UC) in San Diego. Khosla's appointment will be confirmed today, May 16, …