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This Is Your Child's Brain on Exercise; How to Make Schools Healthier

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Discovered: Kids brains look different than adults brains when exercising, how to make schools healthier and how thunderclouds are contributing to climate change. 

By Jen Doll

May 17, 2012

Y.A. for Grownups

Choosing Our Own Adventures, Then and Now

"BEWARE and WARNING!" begins R.A. Montgomery's The Abominable Snowman, book 1 in the recently repackaged Choose Your Own Adventure series you used to know and love. 

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By Jen Doll

Mar 28, 2012

Kindergarten Student Loans Are a Sad Reality of Our Time

Parents are taking out loans to pay for their children's educations. That's been happening for years, you say? Well, yes. Except now the loans are being taken out for high school educations—and even kindergarten. 

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By Jen Doll

Mar 27, 2012

Private Schools Are Getting into the Lucrative Data Mining Business

The challenges facing the well-to-do New York City parent never end!

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 1, 2011

The Reasons Kids These Days Are a Bunch of Impolite Brats

Today, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bring a troubling trend to our attention: manners are dead. 

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