by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce School will be back in session here soon, and once again we’ll begin the battle of homework hill. You know, the part where teachers assign huge projects, send them home for the kids to do, and leave unsuspecting parents to pick up...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce In writing and talking to Dave about the damage that can be done when helicopter parents won’t allow their kids to grow, learn, and make their own mistakes, we discussed how likely it was that certain school administrators around...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Our education system is nowhere near perfect. It’s definitely come a long way, but it seems like we still have a long way to go in acknowledging the talents of individual students. It seems that with laws such as the NCLB Act, a child...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce There are some crazy statistics out there detailing all the knowledge children lose between the end of one school year and the beginning of the next. How incredibly frustrating for both children and parents, who probably slaved over...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce Most kids, even if they grumble occasionally, tend to enjoy their time at school, or at least be willing to get up every day and go. When your child refuses to attend school or is so miserable attending school that every morning is a...
by Shadra Bruce | Education, Let's Talk
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce The first kindergarten was established in the 1800s by Freidrich Froebel in Germany to help impoverished children prepare for school. By the mid-1800s, there were at least two known kindergartens (in Virginia and Wisconsin) in the United...
