Family Education

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iPad vs. Paper for Note-Taking: What My Freshman Learned by Mid-September The iPad was face-down on the kitchen table, and my...

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The First Time a Stranger Walked Into My Classroom (and Why I Keep Doing It) The kids spotted her before I did. Their heads s...

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I offered extra lessons with no time to spare—and it wasn’t perfect, but it worked. On Tuesday afternoon, I had a stack...

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The conference was supposed to be fifteen minutes. We were already at twenty when Marcus’s mom said, “He’s not dumb. He just—...

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Why My Freshman Started Choosing Paper Over the iPad (Sometimes) The first time I really noticed it was a Tuesday night. My d...

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Please Help This Kid in China: What One Teacher Learned From a Left-Behind Student The first time I stood over Xiao Lei’s des...

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A Teacher Explains: How the Literacy Gap Becomes the Class Divide On a gray October morning, I sat beside Marcus while the re...

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Parenting tricks for toddler tantrums that keep us sane I was kneeling on the floor holding two socks—one blue, one with a li...

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What Happens When I Let My 7-Year-Old Niece Plan the Baking: A Simple Confidence-Building Activity The first sign that someth...

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iPad vs. Paper for Studying: A Freshman’s Honest Comparison The printer in my dorm’s study lounge is ancient. At ...