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4 Fun Educational Activities To Do With Your Kids This Summer
Do you remember the games you used to play when you were on summer vacation? Maybe you owned an Easy Bake oven and had a thriving bakery. Or were you the daredevil, creating roller coaster rides with skateboards, ramps and pillows? Regardless of the activity, it sure was fun! What you did not know at…
How to Pass a High School Placement Test (HSPT)
A large percentage of private high schools in the country use the HSPT (High School Placement Test) as a screening prospective students, and even though these schools will accept new students from different backgrounds, it’s necessary to implement standardized testing in order to determine the exactly where each new student is among various subjects. Given…
Why Our Daughters Need To Play More Video Games
Girls today are steering away from math, science and computers in record numbers.According to the U.S. Department of Education, the percentage of women graduates in computer science is at a 39-year low. In 2012, women in the U.S. earned only 19% of all math and computer science degrees (compared to 37% 20 years ago) and made up less than 25% of the workers in engineering and computer-related fields. Fewer than 10 percent …