Does a statement have to be true to be a fact? Eric in Dallas asks after his eight-year-old practices a school lesson contrasting fact and opinion, where a fact was described as something that can be proven true or false. Some dictionary senses do...
Do children still need to learn cursive? Following in our first discussion of whether cursive should be taught, many listeners now in their twenties say they didn’t learn cursive in school and have trouble reading it. Others view it as a lost art...
freshmore n.—Gloss: a student in the second year of high school without enough credits to take sophomore classes. «“We’re really focusing harder now on the freshmen and sophomores so they don’t turn into what’s called ’freshmores,'” he said...
sped n.— «The pace of the program is quicker than anything we do and quicker even than our curriculum calls for. As a result, some sped students actually perform AHEAD of their non-special education peers in successfully handling contentalmost by...
