So far, this has been a pretty interesting year for politics. Certainly, young people are hearing many strong opinions regarding all types of social issues from the adults in their lives and from the media by which they are surrounded. …
Factorials, anaphora, metonymy, stoichiometry, wave oscillation, geometric proofs: there are so many things I kind of remember learning in high school, but to be honest, a lot of them simply don’t apply to my everyday life. Someday, maybe not in …
When it comes to reading comprehension, there are so many terms being bandied about out there that sound amazing. “Active reading” is one of them, and like most of these phrases, it’s easy to say but harder to do. What …
We live in an incredible era in which many young folks take it upon themselves to do community service, an activity which when I was a kid was more associated with punishment than with choice. Without going into detail, I …
As you know by now, things are changing in standardized test land. Along with major content changes to the SAT come revisions to both the SAT and the ACT essays. The information in this post is intended to give you …
The first time I visited the website Shmoop.com, I was dumbfounded. I come from the era of those striped yellow Cliff’s notes. Back then, when you wanted to half-do your reading assignment, you had to physically go to a bookstore …
Concentration: I barely know what this word means anymore. Some days, I really feel like you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more distracted than me. Case in point: not too long ago, I couldn’t find my phone. I looked and …
The numbers are staggering: in a survey of 15,000 students, one of every three reported that they had experienced occasional or frequent bullying (Nansel & others, 2001). But what constitutes bullying in 2016 and why does it happen? By definition, …
My sophomore year, our English teacher, Mr. Tabor, assigned John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. This intimidating, 600-page tome wound up being a game-changer in my life as a reader. All the other English classes that year were reading The Grapes …
New year, new you right? We say this every January. We’re all going to lose weight, break our bad habits, go the gym, buy less junk online, etc, etc. If you’re human, you know that keeping a New Year’s resolution …