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School is out, but that doesn’t mean learning should take a break for the summer – especially when studies show learning that takes place outside school has great influence on future academic achievement. The National Center for Family Literacy has created fun lessons to boost learning this summer.
The National Center for Family Literacy has created [...]

My first movie memory derives from 1937. I’d just started school in Leicester, where my father, who kept being shifted around by the company he worked for, was based. Due to his constant moves, I became acquainted with the cinemas of half-a-dozen towns. Because he was an insurance man, we could never agree about Billy [...]

An early years project targeted at children in Mississauga’s Dixie-Bloor neighbourhood has led to a drop in hyperactivity, aggression and emotional problems among senior kindergarten students.Supports such as annual assessments of kindergarten students and schools filled with services for families have made a [...]

Lawmakers are considering whether Salt Lake City’s newly approved domestic partner registry is simply a means toward health benefits or part of a national conspiracy to erode the meaning of marriage.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Monday voted 4-0 to let the full [...]

The motorcycle idles at the red light; a young man balances the huge machine upright by leaning on his left foot, which is planted firmly on the road beside the bike. He isn’t wearing a helmet as he should, but sports a knitted cap, brimless and purple. He’s leaning forward slightly, as if the bike [...]

The brightest new offering this year is Rigolo (Nelson Thornes, %26pound;225), a story-based scheme for primary children that combines big books with extensive ICT support. The French is colloquial and authentic, and the stories adventurous and lively. The CD begins with the arrival of the Mills Family, who have hired a spooky ch%26acirc;teau and have [...]

Hindi by podcastHarry Potter is faced with the realisation he is getting older. After his cousin Dudley pulls a prank on Hedwig the owl, the ensuing squawking drills through Harry’s hangover; enraged, the wizard turns Dudley into a replica of Michael Jackson’s nose. Meanwhile, Ron Weasley, swooning over his classmate Hermione, breaks in to a [...]

Jack Charles, eight, from Southfields in south-west London, is looking forward to going back to school in September. He is excited about having a male teacher for the first time since starting Sheringdale primary school.”I feel good about it,” he says. “I will work harder and behave better with a male teacher, ‘cos they’re stricter. [...]

Have you noticed your produce department doesn’t look the same as it did, say, 10 years ago? There is a new game in town with new stuff hitting the shelves daily. We all know what broccoli, green beans and lettuce look like, but what about some of the [...]

What kind of people are willing to take those kinds of risk? Consider a story told in Michael Lewis’s highly entertaining Liar’s Poker, an account of the excesses of Wall Street bond traders in the 80s. John Meriwether, the chief bond trader at Salomon Brothers, is the leading character in the book’s famous first scene [...]