Childbirth, Parenting & Education

Teachers hold the potential to provide a student with frustration or opportunity every dayand those states are closer together than you might think.

Enter a world where Batman does the dishes and Barbie fights crime

A flexible set of lessons tailored to the developmental needs of adolescents, based on research in behavioral science.

Our K12 school system isnt a good fit for allor even moststudents. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps disability labels on differences in learning style.

Neuromythsflawed beliefs about learning and teachinghave the capacity to adversely affect classroom practice. In this eye-opening examination of more than seventy such beliefs, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa debunks widely circulated myths and untangles scientific fact from pedagogical fiction.

Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests touted for evaluating critical-thinking skills in math, science, and reading. That was in 2001; but even today, this tiny Nordic nation continues to amaze.

The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high schoolone that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning.