High-stakes testing. Mandated content standards and benchmarks. Public scrutiny of student and school performance. Accountability. Teachers today are challenged to provide instruction that will measure up: to the expectations of administrators, parents, and taxpayers; to their own professional standards; and, most essentially, to the needs of students.
When Timmy decides that he wants to stay up all night Cosmo and Wanda grant his wish to do away with bedtime altogether. Unfortunately, his parents go to an all-night card game, leaving him with his evil baby-sitter, Vicky!
When Parents Text: So Much Said...So Little UnderstoodA collection of insanely funny texts between parents and kids, When Parents Text is a surprisingly affecting window into the complicated time when parents aren’t ready to let go, and kids aren’t ready to belet go. The parents are well-meaning but hopeless, silly and a little corny, and befuddled by the technology. The kids are bewildered yet patient: the perfect straight man. And the authors, two recent college graduates, Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraioli, have an unerring editorial instinct to select the funniest, sweetest, quirkiest, most-telling exchanges.
Parent-Free Zone: Poems About Parents and Other Problems
Poems about parents and other problems! The agonies of being young, not being allowed to wear what you want, having to clean your room, finish your dinner, and horror of horrors accidentally witnessing your parents kissing are among some of the sentiments expressed.
How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers
We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math. Is it our fear of math that constrains us? Or our inability to understand math’s place in relation to our everyday lives? How can we help our children better understand the basics of arithmetic if we’re not really sure we understand them ourselves?
