A lot of people talk about making learning fun. I think they have it basically wrong. When you’re having fun, you’re learning something. It could be learning something trivial – significant only in ...

Frederick County Public Schools held a STEM Fair at The Great Frederick Fair’s Kid Zone on Friday. FCPS students were released from schools three and a half hours early to visit the fair, as part of ...

Isabella Bautista, 8, loves to read “Dork Diaries,” a children’s book series. “It’s about a girl who’s going through life,” said Isabella, referring to the 14-year-old protagonist, Nikki Maxwell, in ...

Do your children love to go online, but not always to kids’ websites? Online learning websites for kids are a great way to ...

While this summer slide affects all subject areas, STEM learning is particularly vulnerable, especially when students lack access to hands-on experiences or engaging resources. Fortunately, a wide ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...

Seaman Knapp, an American agriculturist, wrote, "What a man hears, he may doubt; what he sees, he may also doubt, but what he does, he cannot doubt." The same thing can be applied to children. What ...