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Hey, Did you vote? My ballot showed up yesterday and I've cast it. If you're voting in DC, here's a Washington Post site with a how-to:...

Hey, another reminder to check your voting registration, check the status of your absentee ballot and find your local ballot drop...

Hey, so here's your not-quite-weekly reminder to check your voting registration, check the status of your absentee ballot and find your...

"This is just adding over and over and over again! Why do I have to memorize the tables?!" I stared at Z, thinking about that concept of...

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Happy mid-July, everyone. If you're in DC, please keep the pressure up on the City Council and the Mayor to adjust the 2021 MPD and...

Okay, here's a thing we can all do. The City Council is struggling with how to defund or reorient the MPD. Yesterday they passed an...

Hi there, I had an article on deck, but this is not the time. Instead, please find something in this list of links and make a...

We're ending the school year with more of a whimper than a bang. A lot of us are relieved: distance learning is over! We can get on...

Since the COVID hit, I've been focused on emerging and younger struggling readers; this post is for them, middle and high school...

Okay, you're working on reading with your kid(s). You're patient with the phonics, tenacious with the syllabification, rolling with...

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Rumors of standardized tests' death have been greatly exaggerated. This week the College Board cancelled all tests through June, but is...

There are a million blogs out there telling you what you can/should/could do right now. And yes, I'm piling on with one ask - wait,...

Hey there. Things are feeling very upside down, or maybe completely out of control, or maybe mostly normal, except there is no normal now....

So, that week turned in to a month, plus - my apologies. I laid out spaced repetition study details in my last post, noting it's the best...