Dear Mr. Dad: My wife and I are thinking about keeping our five-year-old son out of kindergarten until he turns six. We have friends who’ve done the same thing and they say that it gave children a lot of advantages. But is it really a good idea? A: W...

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Responding to a call for personal stories about school at my K2twelve blog, Ed Yau wrote me about the challenges he faced getting his son into a Pre-K in New York City. Sage, the app that resulted from his tackling the difficult process of placing his ...

This is a guest post from Lori Hutchison, who teaches high school English and owns the site Masters in Teaching. In her spare time, she enjoys writing on various topics of interest; especially teaching! It’s a common thing these days; more people than ever are taking classes while also taking ...

It has been a long while since I have posted on this blog! So much has happened since my last post that I have no idea where to start… How about I start on the morning of Feb 26th. Our family looked something like this… …and at the end of ...

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun: “Buck to school.” With the start of a new school year so close at hand, this infographic from Credit Donkey provides the basis for some interesting commentary on going to school in America. For example, what d...

by Tony Chen It’s a question that I never thought I’d ask.  My stance has always been that my kids are going to college.  Not negotiable.  End of story.  But recently, I’ve started to seriously question the value of college.  Am I crazy? I ...

After a full weekend of football, we sat down to dinner last night and had a pleasant surprise. Unprompted, both kids started a knowledge dump on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.