kitchen table math, the sequel

I'm finding it incredible that about five seconds ago I was writing posts about teaching math to C., and today C. is taking his NY state...

Actual conversation on this Memorial Day: C. (studying for teacher exam): I hate geometry. Me: Then you should probably do some geometry...

Excerpt from: Multiple Numeric Competencies: When a Number Is Not Just a Number by Ellen Peters & Par Bjalkebring Journal of Personal...

from a friend: Education Next has made the Jacob Vigdor article (released online in October 2012) the lead story in the current Winter 201...

C. tells me that at his friend's Jesuit college, the R.A. had the students all make Christmas cards for their parents. That would NEVE...

re: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté C (freshman in college & home fo...

After declaring Summer over , I'm declaring it back on again. Chris is home for the weekend, and Ed has scored some reasonably-priced ti...

Back from the Open , so summer is officially over, as opposed to emotionally over, which it was the instant Chris set foot inside his dorm. ...

Just got back from taking Chris to college, boo hoo. Not a day I was looking forward to. Now, sitting down at my computer, I find this hea...

Sorry to be out of touch -- our Long Goodbye (Chris goes to college tomorrow) is taxing, and taxing is time-consuming. Am checking in to l...

18 years old today. I woke up in the middle of the night, thinking about their birthdays. I thought about kitchen table math, too. This ...

from Education Week: For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel i...

4/2006 -   the first day .... and Catherine's story   (all pages are frozen; I can't edit them) 11/30/2006 - Christopher masters ...

Just in time for Christmas! (It's from U Mass, which has put Chris in its Honors college and given him $10K in merit aid (unasked). H...

Wanted to say quickly that I've got at least 4 meaty emails waiting for me, which I'm not getting to because they're vying for a...

A few years back, C. moved into my then-office to sleep because Andrew had gotten too noisy to share a bedroom with. Since I never managed t...

Anonymous left a link to the Australian Spelling Test , which was normed across 10,000 children in Southern Australia in 2004. I've just...

In the wake of last night's comeuppance (scroll down to 3rd comment), I decided to give C. the 100-word Schonell spelling test (pdf fi...

They like Megawords (Nick's Mama recommends!), Sequential Spelling , * All About Spelling (Orton Gillingham approach) and Apples and ...

Jimmy is moving to a group home on Monday, and I am so sad. Christian and C. keep saying, "It's like going to college." Sort o...