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11 Products to Start Your New Year’s Resolution On a Positive Note

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11 Products to Start Your New Year’s Resolution On a Positive Note

Texas High School Has Opened a Student-Run Grocery Store for Families in Need

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Texas High School Has Opened a Student-Run Grocery Store for Families in Need

The Oldest Schools in Each Country

Schools across the globe have been around for centuries.

The Oldest Schools in Each Country

How Lolita Author Vladimir Nabokov Helped Ruth Bader Ginsburg Find Her Voice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016.

How Lolita Author Vladimir Nabokov Helped Ruth Bader Ginsburg Find Her Voice

America's Top 25 Colleges and Universities for 2021

Harvard University's Memorial Hall.

100 of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words in the English Language

She's having a dilemma about how to spell dilemma.

5 Things You No Longer See in Driver's Ed

Say goodbye to the highway simulator.

This Organization Designs Resources to Help Educators Teach Difficult Parts of History in Sensitive, Constructive Ways

Facing History and Ourselves students visit the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

13 Back-to-School Essentials (Even if You're Learning From Home)

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An Illinois School District Has Banned Fully Remote Students From Wearing Pajamas While Learning

The great thing about Zoom is that it's almost impossible for people to tell if you're wearing pajamas.

BIC Just Launched a Line of Break-Resistant Crayons and Colored Pencils for Kids

BIC is offering crayons that are break-resistant and paper-free.

Google Teams Up With The Conscious Kid on a Book List to Promote Racial Equity in Classrooms

Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone is on the list, and for good reason.

Browsing Through the History of School Book Fairs

School book fairs can help create readers for life.

This Organization Is Bringing LGBTQ+ Representation to Rural Schools One Box of Books at a Time

Hope in a Box is giving kids the chance to balance out their Brontë with some Baldwin.

Students In Virginia Are Getting Their School Library Books Delivered By Drone

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The American Museum of Natural History Just Launched OLogy, an iPad App Version of Its Science Website for Kids

This dad wanted to learn about dinosaurs, too.
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