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  • 7 Days of Educational Toys: Count and Learn Cookie Jar

    What makes learning fun? Cookies! Fortunately there won’t be any issue with sugar rushes, empty calories or cavities with the talking Count and Learn Cookie Jar. This education non-edible toy includes cookies numbered one through ten and features a “friendly” cookie jar that says things like “can I have...
    Posted to droolicious (Weblog) by SunnyChanel on 08-20-2008
  • Kathie Lee Gifford Like Her Kids Dumb

    This happened a couple of weeks ago, but it’s something that has puzzled me since. On the fourth hour of the Today Show (which they inexplicably gave to Kathie Lee Gifford, and even more inexplicably, I was watching), Kathie Lee and her co-host/sidekick/doormat Hoda Kotb were discussing a recent poll...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by SunnyChanel on 08-18-2008
  • The Four-Day School Week - Totally Weak

    For the working stiff, a four-day work week is a great idea, but a four-day school week for our kids? Not as fabulous. Does that mean your kids will be one fifth dumber? Maybe. But this cutting down on school hours is a reality that many cash strapped school districts are forced to face. Instead of editing...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by SunnyChanel on 08-18-2008
  • More on Redshirting

    You'd think that redshirting -- the practice of holding your five-year old back for a year before he/she starts kindergarten -- wouldn't be a topic that was full of controversy. You'd be wrong, of course, because it's impossible to talk about anything in the American education system...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Adrienne Martini on 08-12-2008
  • Pass this bill or the kid gets it

    Do you ever wonder if public officials are escaped mental patients? At a school board meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, board Chairman Joe White was lobbying for an environmental policy initiative. He then pointed to a 5-year-old in the crowd and said , "if adults don't protect her air and...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 08-02-2008
  • Win a Date with Miley Cyrus!

    Are you a young person that likes Hannah Montana, racy MySpace pictures, constant controversy, and a bit of bitterness? If you like Pina Colada flavored smoothies, and getting caught in the rain, then here is the contest for you. More of an auction, really. Billy's daughter Miley Cyrus has started...
    Posted to FameCrawler (Weblog) by Whit Honea on 07-29-2008
  • Readin', writin' and Dianetics?

    First of all, before we go any further: Will Smith has a school? Apparently yes. He and his wife, Jada Pinkett (the ones with the potentially open marriage ), are opening the New Village Academy in Calabasas, California. Most of the stories I saw about this topic are about the fact that some believe...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 07-28-2008
  • Schools tying up autistic kids

    This is something that you would hope wouldn't happen anymore, like lobotomies. This isn't that bad, of course, but the fact that it happens as often as it does is pretty alarming. According to an article in the New York Times, a large number of students with autism, ADHD and other diagnoses...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 07-22-2008
  • School T-Shirt Controversy: "N the 'N' Word"

    Eight-year-old Jaiden Haber was sent to the principal's office for wearing a shirt that said, "N the 'N' Word" and below that, "It's time!" The principal of the Amityville school told Jaden to change the shirt. The executive director of the Nassau chapter of the New...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 06-30-2008
  • Sir Bob Geldof and Bill Clinton Team Up To Aid African Education Project

    Sir Bob Geldof and Bill Clinton have launched an education project for Africa to the tune of $9.4 MILLION dollars! The aim of the project is to provide more access to schools for 1.2 million children in Malawi and Rwanda. The money will go towards the building of four new training centres and 4,000 teachers...
    Posted to FameCrawler (Weblog) by Karen Sugarpants on 06-29-2008
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