Going away to college is an exciting time in anyone's life. You're starting your journey toward independence and maturity as well as achieving an academic milestone. However, not all colleges are equal, and making the decision about which institutions you want to apply to can be complicated.

Since moving to North America I’ve realised just how overworked UK teachers and school administrators are compared to their transatlantic contemporaries. My teacher friends back home in Blighty are exhausted. It seems that there’s not a week that doesn’t go by when they’re not handed duties that, actually, shouldn’t really be school issues at all. British teachers are expected to be curriculum experts, assessment wizards, social workers, nurses, nutritionists, and lead a whole host of extracurricular activities while triple marking students work to appease overzealous Ofsted inspectors.

Packing up and moving to another country is an exciting yet stressful proposition. Finding schooling for your children abroad can be another mammoth task to tick off your growing to do list. If your child has a diagnosed learning difficulty or particular special educational needs, it can be even more important to get it right.

Sometime over the summer vacation, you can usually expect your child's school to send a letter or email letting you know which class they will be entering and who their new teacher will be. This information might be met with delight or perhaps surprise — but what if the announcement leaves your child upset? I was a teacher for 13 years, and in that time, more than 400 students passed through my class. I formed wonderful relationships with the vast majority of them, who I recall with fond memori

Moving to a new school is exciting, but it can also be a tough transition for kids — from navigating a new school building to finding their place in a new class to striving to make friends all over again. Your child may experience feelings of stress and anxiety; sometimes, switching schools can even be as stressful as going through another tumultuous kid life change such as loss or divorce.

Our modern lives are busier than ever. In many families, both parents work full time and weekdays are spent organizing and moving children from home to school and back again. By the time daily activities, chores and dinner prep are completed there can be little time left over for extracurricular activities.

Summer internships, especially at large companies, can be fiercely competitive. Students want the opportunity to earn a little extra money, increase their network of contacts, and learn vital skills to bolster their future career prospects.

I moved to North America from the UK over a decade ago, and when I first arrived, I missed all sorts of things, from TV shows and foods to country-specific lesson content. To ease my homesickness, I decided to set up a pen pal exchange between my new school and my old school back in England. I asked a former colleague if she was interested in her students becoming pen pals with mine.

Teaching small children is a rewarding yet challenging career choice. Each day, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact on the lives of children and their families. You'll also, unfortunately, have the potential to cause harm.

Sending your child to preschool allows them to socialize with their peers, begin to make friendships, practice routines, and develop early learning skills. They will also be expected to talk to adults, explain their feelings, express themselves through art, dance, and play and develop confidence in their own abilities.

But it’s real: more and more educational institutions, especially community colleges, are absorbing entire program costs for qualifying students. The idea started gaining traction in 2015 when President Obama floated the idea of free community college for “responsible” students. Those students would need to undertake community volunteer duties, maintain a good GPA, and work with a learning mentor. The idea has gained momentum since then. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both repeated the pro

During my 13 year career as a teacher and school administrator, I often thought about the purpose of education. What were the essential lessons and skills I needed to impart to my students? And how could I best guide them in becoming successful adults? Initially, fresh out of college and filled with optimism, I thought it was imperative to teach children to think creatively and to question the world and its rules. Over the years as I became bogged down in bureaucratic standards and goals, I focu

At the start of this year, I started working from home full-time and my husband became a stay-at-home dad. This new arrangement highlighted many issues in terms of gender, roles and responsibilities, and stereotypes, and it led me to appreciate a new book by social commentator Stephen Marche, The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth about Men and Women in the 21st Century.

How can you tell the difference between age-appropriate social awkwardness and something more serious? An untidy line of preschool kids dressed in black bottoms and white tops belt out choir songs on stage. My son faces the wrong way and chews his fingers.

Teachers have various opinions in terms of how to teach handwriting, and in our wired world, many educators question whether we need to formally teach penmanship at all. After all, our children will probably use technology to craft the written word far more often than a pen or pencil. Perhaps, they argue, students' time and efforts would be better spent learning keyboard skills. But like it or not, as adults, we're judged by our handwriting.

More and more, daycares and childcare facilities are installing CCTV cameras and investing in software that allows parents to log in and watch their little one in real time. Some parents love this new technology and enjoy being able to check in on their child during the school day, but others worry that these surveillance systems may have negative implications.

As a substitute teacher, you might be called into a situation where the regular teacher couldn't leave any instructions, so you have to come up with a compelling lesson for...

Facebook connects people across oceans, and generations. My family and friends back home in England wouldn’t feel as connected to me without the social media posts, updates and the photos...

Teaching is a rewarding yet demanding career. With long hours and a heavy workload, it's easy to fall prey to teacher burnout. Without proper support, teachers are in danger of...

One of the ways we describe the study of science to small children is by saying we are “learning about the world and how it works.” But with a definition...