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I walked my kindergarteners through their very first baking soda and vinegar experiment—and their reactions were priceless! Watching them mix the ingredients and seeing their excitement was the ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...

Thank you to Ms. Velichko, a 3rd grade teacher at Austintown Intermediate School, for having her class recite the Pledge of ...