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School rules – and so do school supplies. Especially new ones: novelty pencils with eye-catching images, highlighters with brightly colored ink, notebooks waiting to be filled with novel ideas. That’s why school supply stores are so essential in keeping students...

Worlds with wizards and medieval castles. A group of entrepreneurial teenagers starting their own babysitting business. A young girl masquerading as a boy aboard a 17th century ship. Though vastly different universes, these plotlines all have one thing in common:...

The holiday of hearts, longing, and love is swiftly approaching, and it’s time to stock up on craft supplies so students can play the role of cupid and deliver valentines to their classmates. Whether you’re an art teacher or an...

President’s Day: it’s one of the holidays that often gets left uncelebrated but nevertheless seems a good excuse to have a day off from school and work. Originally established in 1885 as a day of remembrance for George Washington, it...

Sharpening pencils, opening a new box of chalk, smoothing out a piece of loose leaf: so many actions in the school day revolve around the supplies students and teachers need to succeed in the classroom. That’s why school stores are...

They may have been the 9.5 underdogs, but the Ravens snagged the AFC Championship from the Patriots anyway, and Baltimoreans are now suiting up in their best purple fan gear to get ready to cheer their team on at the...

We’ve counted down to the New Year and packed away all of our holiday decorations from December. Though the rush and stress of buying gifts and wrapping them up in pretty packages is finally over, another holiday is right around...

Cash registers: they’re a coveted toy amongst children of all ages who want to scan items, handle cash, and use what they know about math to calculate discounts, sales, and merchandise totals. Just like house, playing store is an appealing...

New Year, new start for everyone: from those on the dieting bandwagon to students in grade school beginning the winter quarter. School-wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBIS) can reinforce and support positive performance and conduct amongst students, helping children to succeed...

Mathematics is an abstract study – a slew of symbols that have to be translated into concrete figures that form a solution. For many children, visual depictions of equations and hands-on experience with math help them to understand larger concepts...

Shopping for school supplies at the inauguration of each academic year is a thrill, and there’s something about unsharpened pencils and blank loose-leaf that symbolizes the opportunity to wipe the old slate chalkboard clean and start anew. But sometimes tracking...

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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a...

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The show that inspired a generation of young readers and fostered a love of reading is making a comeback, and a big one at that. The popular children's show, hosted by Levar Burton, ran on PBS from 1983 to 2006,...