Tutor Delphia's Blog:

While the Internet is pretty well stocked with educational videos of all kinds, ones that make you chuckle while learning about various math or science concepts are pretty rare. Sure, there’s drunken professors discussing the paranoia surrounding swine flu on Funny or Die but there are surprisingly few videos that mix humor with science, math, and any other subject on your class list. Funny educational videos range from the clever to the hilarious, and pretty much all of them…

As our children are growing up, we don’t have too much choice in their education. We can choose which public schools they attend by where we choose to live, or we can decide to pay for them to go to private school. Alternatively, a growing number of parents are taking their children’s educations into their own hands by homeschooling them. Homeschooling is very different from traditional schooling, but it generally contains the same or very similar education subjects and methods.…

Rod, a high school freshman, asks:

“Are teachers out to get me? Why do all my teachers assign assignments at once?”

Mr. Sterling answers: 

They aren’t out to get you; teachers just don’t take the time to plan assignments together in high school.

One of the things that struck me when I moved from teaching 7th grade to high school was the fact that high school teachers simply don’t talk to each other. We have monthly meetings, but those are with our subject-area…