The school year begins the second week of August this year. The last time I  started a school year in person with 4- and 5-year-olds was Aug...

    I don't remember a lot about kindergarten. I was in the "morning class" when three hours was all that educators thought fi...

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~ playwright Sidney Howard (he adapted Gone With The W...

September, not January, begins my calendar year. And it always has, since that long-ago September day in West Philadelphia when I first se...

Happy New Year! As any student will tell you, the new year doesn't begin January 1; it's the first day of school. Today it's he...