Happy November! Looking for something to do with all those pumpkins? How about this pumpkin smash? You can also celebrate Diwali this weekend, or drop the kids off for a pajama party at CAMP. Still looking for more? Scroll down for the rest of our top event picks! Photo: iStock Canstruction 2021 It’s opening weekend for Canstruction. Don’t miss your chance to see some wildly creative can sculptures! Event Details. Diwali Celebrations: the Culture Tree Diwali is the New Year celebration of light over darkness. Join friends from The Culture Tree to celebrate this beautiful festival by learning the steps and gestures of rangoli, a traditional Indian dance, hearing stories, watching a captivating dance, and creating your own fireworks...
At the beginning of this school year, a story about a Texas elementary school teacher banning homework went viral. A whole wave of schools followed suit. Soon, teachers from Portland, Oregon to Farmington, Minnesota started sending kids home without nightly assignments. Hell, even an entire Massachusetts school district planning to do away with homework completely. It’s like they read that Shel Silverstein poem and took it literally.READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to Homework flickr / Alan Wat What they did read were scores of articles and books claiming that homework has no academic benefit. But there’s really only one expert behind the articles: Dr. Harris Cooper. In the mid-80s, Cooper, a Professor Of Psychology at Duke University, reviewed nearly every study on homework to see if...
President Trump’s recent budget proposal calls for a $9.2 billion (or 14 percent) cut to the Education Department. Though his plans reinvest some funds in charter schools, it will come at the expense of $1.2 billion worth of after-school and summer programs. For parents, this means a lot more than extra playdates. flickr / Fort Rucker The proposed budget would scrap the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which provides assistance with academics as well as health and nutrition education during non-school hours. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney claimed that there was no evidence that such programs actually accomplish anything, despite the fact that the government’s own data says otherwise.The U.S. Department Of Education report on the 2013-14 school year (the most...
Image via Vitali Prakapenka for the University of Chicago In school, kids are taught the three states of matter: solid, liquid, gas. And the biggest conundrum would be non-Newtonian fluids, which can be both liquids and solids. Oh, simpler days. Because now, a team of scientists from the University of Chicago is saying that that a “strange” new state of matter has been created in the lab, and it’s called “superionic ice.” The team fired electrons between two pieces of diamond—the hardest known material on Earth—using a particle accelerator called the Advanced Photon Source. This caused an almighty 20 gigapascals of pressure in the sample water of water used in the experiment. Then, to heat things up, they shot lasers...
Wowzers, it’s that time already. The season toy-makers have been dreaming of and bloggers feel compelled to write about. You guessed it, I’m doing it too. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been carefully listening to the trends and seeing what are the most sought-after gifts for this Holiday season. I even asked a few of the people working in my local toy shop to hear their predictions. I may, or may not have had a word with the Big Man in the North Pole, but that would be telling. So, without further faffing, here are the top 20 trending toys for Christmas 2021. Oh, and by the way – any toys that arrive on my desk get donated to...
