education

Here is Today's Daily Dilemma: My daughter is having some trouble at school. She’s in third grade and while she is very intelligent, she struggles socially and is not getting very good grades on her school work. She has trouble remembering things, like multiplication facts, and has a hard time with reading comprehension... Read More ...

In December, five states announced that about 40 schools in 2013 would add 300 hours of learning time to their school calendar:  New York, Colorado, Tennessee, Massachusetts and Connecticut.  The goal is to make schools in the United States more competitive globally.  Nearly 20,000 students will participate in the three-year pilot program.

Teachers!  Sign up right now for the Reading, Writing and Rhyming school program.  I have a signup sheet below to make it easy.

This is for real, folks. I'm speechless over this.   so is the guy who attempts to say the word, because it took him over 3 hours.

We had a lot of different discussions on the show today that seemed to get people all in a tizzy to give their two cents. Man I love when that happens. One of them was the subject of taking the teaching of cursive writing out of schools. I must admit I found it interesting how many people just couldn't fathom the idea. Yet when asked, when is the last time you needed to use cursive handwriting mos

America has been slipping in education and getting jumped by many other other countries that we used to clobber in testing and plain old "smarts" as my mom used to call it. I guess we're getting sick of it, which is a good thing.

There are a few things in life I really , really hate. Not many, but a few. One of those things is bullying. I know that there is a new campaign through out the country to fight bullying and make kids understand the need to respect each other and our differences. You don't always get to see that that message is getting through though, so I wanted to share this story.

I go into the fridge tonite, and that's what's in there - remnants of a chicken. What the heck do I do with THAT? I'm totally clueless - but help is on the way!

I had the unique opportunity to visit a great school and a great grade school teacher, and it was all done by basically closing my eyes and picking a teacher's name off of their website, all because her first and last name rhymed.   Must have been karma.

I just got this week's Time Magazine, and I couldn't believe what I was reading.  19 states allow spanking and paddling to this day for misbehavior.  (New York doesn't).  But would you support it?  Take our poll

The "Daily Dilemma" on the Sean and Richie Show is featured every weekday morning at 6:40am. We and the listeners take on someone's problems and try to offer different perspectives. Now, these don't have to be huge problems- it could just be something bothering you or a friend, or it could be some little thing you and another just can't agree on. If you have a dilemma to share we'd love

We started going through this syndrome a few years ago.  Our son Ben is now a senior in college.  Every time he leaves, we feel the pain.  There are some positives , to be honest, but not many.  Are you going through it?