First day of kindergarten

We’ve graduated to a new neighborhood with a great (public = no massive tuition!!!, Vanguard program) school within a 30 second drive – but unfortunately we found ourselves one street away from the appropriate zoning. Seriously, one street.  After an initial application, testing, interview and lottery process (WHEW)- we got ...

Graduation Day (or How Ella Learned How to Roar)

Ella's new school (2 months in now!!) had a 'Graduation Ceremony' a couple of weeks back that was wildly precious.  Never mind the fact that Ella wasn't actually graduating, each little kiddo class had worked on a few songs to sing (including choreography) to their fawning, video and digital camera-laden ...

SAT prep gets geeky with FutureU

Test prep company Kaplan has teamed with a video game company to create FutureU, an interactive SAT study guide — gamer-style.  I am totally down with learning interactively – but I must say, come SAT time there was nothing like sitting next to a mountain of paper practice tests/books and ...

Time to send the kiddos to India?

Really interesting article on India’s growing educational system in the NY Times today — apparently even Japan is a little leery on India’s kick-butt teaching style.  And you know if they make Japan nervous that means something… I mean, wow… just, wow: India’s more demanding education standards are apparent at ...