Category: Education

  • So, how did we afford all this stuff?

    One of the things I wonder about a lot is this whole idea that while we used to be able to do/build/have certain things in the past, we are now apparently no longer able to. This is despite the overall wealth of the US now being far greater than it was when we used to…

  • Why isn’t there a free alternative to Accelerated Reader?

    I totally understand and believe in the idea behind the Accelerated Reader (AR) program by Renaissance Learning. If you’re not familiar with AR, it’s an adjunct to standard school reading lists or other reading curriculum. Kids read books then take short quizzes about the books and earn scores based on the difficulty of the books…