Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success and Multitasking
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High-priced tutors and college counselors have entered into the debate over whether there is a crisis in the education of boys.
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Doug Ainge didn't want his only son, Erik, playing football -- too rough, he figured, for the then-fifth-grader who already excelled at basketball and baseball. But that was before his brother Danny introduced Doug to brain typing, a technique for evaluation developed by Celtics consultant Jon Niednagel. Curious, Doug sent Niednagel a home video that featured Erik answering questions about ...
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I picked up my 6-year-old son from school last week, and we drove to Wal-Mart to see the future for paper checks. We grabbed a few of life&#39;s staples: some Legos, a pack of 3x5 cards to create
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of a childâs developmental milestones.
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This kind of sibling relationship is different. But how? A case study.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Task Coach - Your friendly task manager. Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.   This release makes it possible to repeat tasks on either a daily or a weekly basis and to add notes to categories. It also contains a number of other changes and bug fixes.
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By Anonymous  AARON SPEARS REMAINS FOCUSED ON HIS CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC COURSEWORK DESPITE MULTIPLE DISABILITIES.  FOR STUDENTS WITH DSSABILITIES, THE EVERYDAY responsibilities of school that their peers take for granted can pose significant challenges.
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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Chasing relative performance leads to a short-term orientation.
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By Kevin Saylor  Site might help break o
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Despite the dire warnings, children whose schedules are packed with activities actually flourish
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After-school sports club are being launched to improve basic skills like throwing and catching.
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Memo to: Frustrated parents From: Health section staff At this point your teens may insist that their distractions enhance their studying. According to Poldrack, results from the UCLA study give researchers a good idea that active tasks -- involving "doing" processes, like counting beeps or singing...
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A FEW years ago, a young man in his freshman year of college had a vision for a better way to provide high school students with the information they need to find colleges that are a good fit.
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Think hours of slogging are helping your child make the grade? Think again
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"TechKnow" program doles out PCs to children who complete special class, meet standards regarding grades and attendance.