A new study finds that having books in the house is correlated to how many years a child will complete. Just reading this inspires me to get back to my dream of turning my van into a bookmobile that I would use to get books from kids with tons of books to kids with none.

Did you know that Barnes and Noble has 421 children’s book videos.  Obviously the intent is to sell the books on their website.  Perhaps because of this, the videos are very well done.  They use interviews, young reporters, illustrations and readers to introduce the books.  I love that you can look at both the content [...]

We hear often that students do not know enough about how our government works. iCivics is an online educational project designed to teach students civics.  The six games deal with the following topics:  Arguing a Supreme Court Case, Making Laws in Congress, Understanding how the Supreme Court works, Being President, the Three Branches of [...]