Author: Nola Jones

Nowadays, you can find someone with an opinion on Christian Light Education in the majority of homeschool cooperatives. strong beliefs, typically. Someone who tried it for three weeks and thought the pacing was a little too fast, or a parent who believes it helped a struggling reader. Seldom is there a middle ground, and strangely, that works to its advantage. The curriculum known as Christian Light Education, or CLE, has been steadily gaining popularity for many years. It was created by Christian Light Publications in Virginia and is based on the Anabaptist faith. It covers all of the major subjects…

A scholarship that doesn’t require your transcript has a subtle refreshing quality. No need for a GPA. No threshold for income. There is no verdict-like standardized test score associated with your name. The Gen and Kelly Tanabe Scholarship follows a different logic, placing nearly all of the emphasis on a student’s personal statement, which is a few hundred words that allows them to express themselves without interference from their financial situation or academic standing. By some standards, it’s a modest award. A thousand dollars. However, that sum covers actual gaps for a student assembling money from various sources, such as…

Apple has a long history of sticking to its price points. You hardly ever see a clearance rack or a markdown when you walk by an Apple Store. The company just doesn’t do sales, at least not in the conventional sense. Because of this, the Education Store feels somewhat like a secret door that most people pass by without noticing. The savings from the Apple student discount are more significant than many people realize. Eligible customers can save 5% to 15% on a variety of products, including MacBooks, iPads, and now Apple Watch models, through Apple’s special Education Store. That…

The majority of the events that take place within the boundaries of the Arlington Independent School District do not make headlines across the country. That says something on its own. Arlington ISD, which serves nearly 60,000 students across 75 schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, is one of Texas’s larger public school systems—the 11th largest, to be exact—but it is frequently overlooked in discussions that focus on the wealthier, more successful suburban districts that are close by. You can see its scope when you stroll through the district’s enrollment events this summer. Paperwork in hand, families are arriving at various…

Around this time each year, thousands of students sit with a long list of university websites open on twenty tabs and their CUET results open on one. After two hours, they are even more perplexed than when they began because they are manually comparing cutoffs, cross-referencing categories, and second-guessing themselves. It’s a well-known scene, and to be honest, it doesn’t need to be this difficult anymore. One of the more beneficial developments in India’s undergraduate admissions process is the CUET college predictor. It replaces hours of disorganized research with something more structured, not because it makes any guarantees—it doesn’t. The…

A school with its gates locked on a Wednesday morning has a subtly unnerving quality. There was no commotion, no children spilling out of buses, and no anxious teachers gripping coffee cups. There was only a handwritten sign attached to the door stating that children should stay at home today due to the heat. More than 850 schools in England and Wales experienced it this week, and it has caused many parents to have concerns that go far beyond the practicalities of childcare. A red weather warning for extreme heat was issued by the Met Office for a large area…

A heatwave has a peculiarly illuminating quality. When everything is reduced to the most basic elements—water, shade, and rest—the systems we take for granted begin to malfunction. Bin collection may not be the first thing that comes to mind when temperatures approach 40 degrees Celsius, but this week it has emerged as one of the most important logistical issues of the summer for refuse workers throughout the United Kingdom. A number of councils have rescheduled collection rounds to start as early as five in the morning, and some even earlier. Crews from Bristol Waste start working at five in the…

When the heat strikes more quickly than anyone anticipated, a certain kind of chaos ensues. By Tuesday morning, parents in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Bristol, and the larger West Country were silently checking their phones for last-minute messages about early pickups and Wednesday closures, as well as texts from schools and emails from headteachers. In Somerset, over 60 schools had already closed or sent students home early. Then came over 40 in Gloucestershire. The number was rising into the hundreds by Wednesday throughout Wales and England. A red weather warning for extreme heat, not an amber or yellow one, was issued by…

In literary circles, there is a story from Radcliffe College that is passed around with a sort of delighted disbelief. It includes William James, an opera season, a final exam, and a note. It concludes in a way that raises the question of whether geniuses follow completely different rules than the rest of us. The 1890s were the time. Gertrude Stein was a student of William James, a psychologist and philosopher, at Radcliffe, Harvard’s women’s annex. According to all accounts, their relationship was unique—a truly fruitful union of two eccentric minds. Stein, who was lively and creative even at the…

High school students update their phones every July with a nervous energy that most adults have long since forgotten. It’s the same this year. For students who endured weeks of cramming, practice exams, and late-night study sessions, the results of the 2026 AP exam are being released. These scores can mean the difference between paying for a class they only partially completed and receiving college credit. These distributions are released gradually by the College Board, and the information that is currently available presents an intriguing picture. For example, 15% of students received a 5 in AP Chemistry, 31% received a…