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Why homework became a substitute for bad teaching

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along the line, teachers stopped teaching full lessons in class and started ...
Parenting trends, like all things, change with each generation. And boomers, in particular, favored some parenting styles that younger generations of parents find totally outrageous today. So Redditor ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Just after Thanksgiving each year, my young nieces send out a letter to the extended family that contains their “Letter to Santa,” outlining the things they would like as gifts.
If you're a parent of young children, chances are the Elf on the Shelf comes to your home during the holiday season. You give it a name, prop it on a shelf, and instantly you have Santa’s personal ...
HorizonOS claims to offer tools to help developers build, test and deploy faster through core building blocks for application development and create platforms for those applications Dream11 had ...
Some parents turn to books or family movie nights to facilitate discussions. But they admit they don’t have all the answers. By Kristin Wong This summer, Catherine Collins took her 11-year-old twins, ...
Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...
Even before the formal presentation started at D.C.’s Noyes Elementary on Thursday night, students were eager to show off. They bounced from one table to another, rolling dice, flipping coins and ...
John Oliver, in typical John Oliver fashion, deployed a rather, er, colorful metaphor to help explain a very serious topic in his main story last night. “At a certain point, assigning an outcome to a ...
Toys are supposed to be fun and exciting for children, while some are also educational, but a few products aimed at kids have caused a wave of confusion among adults. Unsuspecting moms and dads—and ...