This is an edited version of an article from Time magazine on 1/15/15. News stories about the debate over the DREAM act, the tens of thousands of children who arrive unaccompanied in the U.S. each year and the backlash against immigrants in the Middle East after the recent immigration ban on Muslims can raise all […]
Election 2016 | How To Teach Kids About The Election Process
As things begin to heat up on the Presidential election front, it’s only natural that children – young and old – will overhear something and begin asking questions. With the current tone and vitriol being dispensed in some debates and the media, it becomes increasingly difficult to explain to younger children how to make sense […]
How To Handle Election Season Negativity
This presidential election season has been interesting, to say the least. As the primary season rolls on it seems that the candidates have taken to some extreme – perhaps inflammatory and questionable – measures to gain voters. For some of them, they’re no longer talking about policies and planning, or trying to win over the […]
Common Core and the Presidential Election
Oh Common Core. Love it or hate it, it’s definitely a talking point among parents, educators, and – now that it’s election season – Presidential Candidates. In case you’ve missed it – or your child hasn’t taken home a math problem that has the most complicated rules to solving it (because old school adding and […]