The local Sunday newspaper magazine used this headline over a short piece suggesting websites that didn't work for me. I can't recommend the article, but it did get me thinking.

Almost all of us have re-entry problems. Think of the first couple of days after an extended vacation. You probably got through it. It probably wasn't much fun. Read more

If you were teaching at a technical school trying to turn out better engineers, would you be studying cornrow hairstyles? May be you should. At Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, that's what assistant professor Ron Eglash does. Michael Hill (Associated Press) reported on it recently.

Back when he was a doctoral candidate, Eglash happened on an aerial photo of a Tanzanian village. Read more

StudyBuddy has had its share of boys who weren't much interested in school. Generally, we focus for a while on what they're already interested in. Pretty soon we can use what's interesting to teach what isn't. Boys do have more trouble with the transition to first grade, and they do achieve skill with reading and writing more slowly. Read more

Recently the local Sunday newspaper picked up a couple of important things. In one, Rob Stein of the Washington Post reports a study of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center for Child Health Research. It found nearly a million kids suffer from a constellation of risk factors for diabetes and early heart disease.

Three out of four overweight kids become overweight adults. Read more

As you know by now from mass media sources, the House passed HR 1350 and the Senate passed S 1248 reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The current issue of Special Edge published by California Services for Technical Assistance Training (see http://www.calstat.org/) includes a quick review of its mandates, and is worth checking out. Read more