Child Learning Style What our children learn is important. However, a lot of people forget that HOW our children learn is as important as what they learn. When teaching kids, it is important to know their learning style. If we are able to identify this, the learning experience will be more positive. Kids will learn faster when taught the way they would understand the most.There are, basically, three ways children learn... Read on ... learning styles, education, parenting

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Hasbro shelves plans for Pussycat Dolls

Hasbro Inc. shelved plans Wednesday to release a line of dolls based on the Pussycat Dolls, an all-female music group known for risque lyrics and skimpy outfits.

Hasbro, the nation's second biggest toy maker, said it decided the dolls were "inappropriate" for the company to market and that the pop group catered to a more mature audience.

The move comes amid criticism from a national advocacy group, Dads & Daughters, that had campaigned against the doll line.

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Child Learning Style

What our children learn is important. However, a lot of people forget that HOW our children learn is as important as what they learn.

When teaching kids, it is important to know their learning style. If we are able to identify this, the learning experience will be more positive. Kids will learn faster when taught the way they would understand the most.

There are, basically, three ways children learn...Read on ...

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Stay at home Dads learn new job

They were carpenters, legislative aides, software engineers, real estate investors and teachers. Now, they are stay-at-home dads, part of the growing posse of men who left paying work to raise their kids.

Like moms, they spend their days at parks, story times and coffeehouses, too often isolated in a world dominated and defined by women.

In Seattle, though, these men are building their own world with blogs, e-mail and the occasional trip to Ballard.

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Teaching to the test

Let's Teach to the Test

By Jay Mathews

All signs point to 2006 being a crucial year for testing in America, with the first national results from the new SAT due, as well as significant changes underway in how states use the tests that rate schools under the No Child Left Behind law.

If only, then, we could figure out a way to speak clearly to each other about what we think of the many tests our children are taking. Let's start by trying to clarify what I consider the most deceptive phrase in education today: "teaching to the test."

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Visit the library web pages for ideas to share, library marketing and library news.

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State of the World’s Mothers In commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its seventh annual State of the World’s Mothers report. By focusing on the 60 million mothers in the developing world who give birth every year with no professional help and the 4 million newborns who die in the first month of life, this report helps to bring attention to the urgent need to reduce infant mortality around the world. The report also identifies countries that are succeeding in improving the health and saving the lives of mothers and babies, and shows that effectivesolutions to this challenge are affordable – even in the world’s poorest countries. Read on ... Tags: mothers education

Overeating creates obese kids: study

Excessive eating - not a lack of exercise - is behind childhood obesity, a groundbreaking study shows.It is the first conclusive evidence behind the spiraling trend, challenging the federal government's refusal to restrict food advertising aimed at children, Fairfax newspapers report. Read more …

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S.O.S. for Information Literacy

is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators, that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to children. At no time in history has the ability to locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information been more critical for today's learners. These skills, collectively referred to as information literacy, lay the groundwork for success in every phase of a student's life both in and out of school.

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The Art Room

Like art rooms in schools everywhere, this virtual art room is meant to be a "special" place.

Within its "walls," kids are offered opportunities to create, to discover, to imagine, to invent, to learn, and to make their thoughts become things.

In short, the @rt room is a place for kids to explore their inner and outer worlds

. Visit the art room

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The national Archives of Australia has built “an interactive website and online teaching resource that aims to encourage teachers and students to use archival materials within discovery-oriented teaching and learning”.

…. The general topics already found on Vrroom include immigration, conflicts, gender, and Indigenous rights.

Formulated for students and teachers throughout Australia and across all curricula, Vrroom is ideal for anyone engaged in Australian studies, politics, geography, environmental management, and technology.

Visit Vrroom

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When the bullied fight back

In Britain there’s currently a debate about whether a tough-talking celebrity should be leading the effort to stop bullying.

The case of Jodie Marsh brings into focus a number of questions that usually get sidestepped in public conversation about bullying.

First, is the person who fights back also a bully? My sense is that there is considerably social pressure not to fight back. Most of the conceptualizations are patently negative: “two wrongs don’t make a right”, “you can’t fight rankism with more rankism”, “revenge”, and even “terrorism”. It seems to me that this predictable social response supports bullying.

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Fiber may lower protein linked to heart disease

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A fiber-rich diet may help control levels of a blood protein linked to an increased risk of heart disease, new research suggests.

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Communication for you Are you interested in developing your communication skills? Do you love to write?A re you interested in reading? Visit my Pivotal Communication blog. Tag: communication

What is the Texas Fatherhood Campaign?

The Texas Fatherhood Campaign is a statewide, region-by-region effort to positively impact fathers and their children. Through public messages and local fatherhood conferences, fathers learn of the powerful impact they have on their children, including the devastating effects of father-absence. The TFC is led by Free Market Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation based in Plano, Texas dedicated to "Protecting Freedoms and Strengthening Families."

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The Great plant escape - interactive learning about plants Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life Interactive Tags: education parenting