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Everyone wants a piece of Poop Money. For years now, Japan has known a universal truth: Kids learn better with poop. This is thanks to the hit series of educational Poop Drill (Unko Drill) books, which began back in 2017 with the hugely successful Poop Kanji Drill. It has since spawned an entire poop-themed educational media empire. The latest installment of this is the Poop Money Drill, which teaches kids financial literacy. Poop Money Drill is divided into two books: an “Economy Edition” that explains the importance of circulating money in a society; and a “Life Edition” that focuses on...

As part of its lock one in with the Tangram Bits add-on for $149.99 shipped. Price appears at checkout. That’s at least $100 off the going rate and the lowest price we have ever tracked. This one fully launched back in March of this year as one of the more unique devices in Amazon’s growing stable of tech gadgets. You’re essentially looking at an interactive video calling display that also features a built-in 19-inch touchscreen projection. It allows kids to connect with family members and play hands-on educational games together via the projected content and, in this case, the geometrical...

Public schools, since their inception, have been conceived as education factories. Having emerged alongside, if not as a product of, the Industrial Revolution, they adopted many of the processes being innovated during this move from largely agrarian and handcraft economies to industry and machine manufacturing.It was during this time that we began to conflate education with schooling, or as as philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich wrote in his groundbreaking book Deschooling Society:"They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or,...

4 Reasons Why We Love Using Unit Studies In Our Homeschool ~ Written by Erin of Nourishing My Scholar My children have always had intriguing interests: dinosaurs, the ocean, national parks, mythical creatures, WWII, frogs, and many more. Sometimes their interests are fleeting, like when they watch for the spring birds to arrive. Other passions last for years, like my son and his obsession with WWII or how both children have been raising goats for several years. Most interests fall somewhere in the middle, and many start with a simple book or question that needs answering. Unit studies are different from traditional homeschooling...

Educators preach about growth and grit to children, but the system itself fails to encourage perseverance and curiosity. Instead, it does the opposite by affixing labels to students, sorting them into relatively static groups, and signaling to the students that that their effort doesn’t matter. This learning model is an outgrowth of a dangerous zero-sum mindset. That mindset creates winners and losers among students before they turn 18, and it causes society to miss out on unique talent that could have been developed. A better alternative is reinventing school culture as a whole and reorienting it toward a mastery-based, positive-sum...