Category: Education
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Messy Science
I grew up in a town in the Midwest that happened to be the world headquarters for Dow Chemical Company. We may have had a senile high school French teacher who gave the same test over and over, but our chemistry teacher had a PhD. It would be interesting to find out how much effect…
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Science Fair
Our daughter’s homeschool program had its science fair today. There were about twelve exhibits. Two of them were group projects done during the kids’ regular class days. Given that her program has close to a hundred kids, this is probably average participation in voluntary science-related projects in schools. Which is to say, Americans don’t like…
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Asynchronicity
It was one of those days. We were in the midst of a thoroughly normal, peaceful morning. My husband had dropped our son at the bus stop, our daughter had eaten a great breakfast, and we seemed poised for a lovely homeschooling day. Then came the topknot. I can’t really explain to you, except that…
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Up Past my Bedtime
No offense to all the other moms I know, but homeschooling moms are just the coolest. I just got back from the monthly homeschooling support group at the Educational Resource Center, and it’s enough to make you want to go even if you don’t homeschool. In fact, some moms who turn up actually aren’t homeschooling…yet…or…
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Inspiration: a New Stapler
Yesterday my daughter and I went to Staples and bought…a new stapler. It felt a little self-referential. Anyway, she chose it (it’s pink, you might have guessed), but didn’t seem all that excited about it. Our other stapler, the one I must have brought to college with me, died. So it was time. When we…