11+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1083+ words) Maggie Perkins used to be a self-sacrificing “teacher martyr” who got paid “pennies” to take care of other people’s kids while barely making rent, she said. This is the little-discussed “dark side” of teaching where you get “compensated emotionally instead…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (736+ words) Parents-to-be considering baby names have all kinds of reasons for excluding certain names from their list. For example, giving a child the same name as a cousin is generally frowned upon — the name is viewed as already “taken.” People also…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (483+ words) PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year. The new number is down from more than 10,000 in 2023-24, but still far above the levels of a…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1321+ words) It was a typical Wednesday evening. The kids had just gotten home, and we were deep in the post-school vortex of homework, playtime, screen time, and the daily exchange where parents beg for any crumb of information about their children’s…...