Rethinking Education Blog

Travel is Education

Summer is here and a lot of children are out of school with some free time on their hands. This affords parents a great opportunity to...

Details and Brain Development

One of the best things for brain development in young children, whether at home or at school, is to get them to focus on small...

14 Things Every Parent Should Know About Teaching

This is an open letter to parents, many of whom are now thrust into the role of teacher. Welcome to my world. I have been an educator...

Dear Parents who are now Teachers

Dear Parents, There are now millions of parents being put into the position of being a teacher to their own children because schools have...

Reading is Everything

(Do to the dramatically shifting landscape of education and schools I am gearing my posts for awhile towards parents, many of whom are...

Behavior and academics

Legislators are putting pressure on students, teachers and parents for ever increasing student academic performance to the exclusion of...