Mississippi's Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring her girlfriend as her date. The student planned to wear a tux. The school district's bureaucratic non-excuse for the cancellation is that it's "due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events." The district appears to be tap-danci...
Given the inherent complexity of English, reading to young children is critical to developing their language skills.
August 1940. "Port Gibson, Mississippi." Medium-format nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Rebecca Zook is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. She blogs about learning at Triangle Suitcase . Over half a million votes were cast to decide Barbie’s newest career . But even though Computer Engineer Barbie was developed in consultation with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering , the ...
As Tim Burton's take on the story consumes moviegoers across the world, it seems a good opportunity to read a letter or two from the original creator of Alice in Wonderland : Charles Dodgson . Both letters were written by Dodgson - better-known by most under his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll - to a young friend called Isabel Seymour in May of 1869, just four years after the release of the first Ali...
Hello again 2-B-2 Architecture ! If you read Yanko Design on the regular, you know that 2-B-2 has had more than a couple projects featured. Why? Because they’re friggin awesome. And what have we got here? More awesome. The project you’re about to experience shares the same name as the mythical creature whose main goal in life is to borrow three fiddy!* Yes, yes indeed, it is “Nessie,” our underwa...
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The mood has set in for the most colorful Indian festival, Holi ! Happy Holi to all our viewers!
Photograph by Jasminder Singh Oberoi .
ABC After-School Specials hit their zenith (or nadir) with The Day My Kid Went Punk , a punksploitation show to rival the CHiPS "Rip and Destroy" episode (and yes, that's Bernie Kopell, the doctor from the Love Boat, as the outraged dad).
The Day My Kid Went PUNK
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LA post-punk mag from 1981: WET - Boing ...
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Although federal law requires choking warning labels on certain toys, no mandate exists for food.
We cover mostly productivity-related iPhone apps around these parts, but if you've got a little one who could use some educational—or just distracting—games, MetaFilter founder, blogger, and dad Matt Haughey has rounded up 14 kid-tested, parent-approved iPhone games for kids.
They're not all free (most are a couple of bucks), but they've saved the parents in the Haughey household from many a...
I've played with my fair share of LEGOs, but I never actually envied the little guys until I saw Dave DeGobbi's Crawler Town, a work as impressively conceived as it is constructed. I'd forfeit bendable elbows to live in it.
It sort of reminds me of those old books on a single building—Castles or Pyramids or what have you—where you could look at the huge, detailed illustrations and imagine doze...