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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...