Return to Eden:
September is rolling in and stores across the nation are selling stacks of backpacks and lunch boxes in preparation for a new school year. Children are counting the days till classes start with a little trepidation and a lot of excitement. And even those of us who are fully-grown begin to feel nostalgic about learning new and fascinating things.
For me, those feelings started in early summer when I attended my college reunion. I emerged from that experience with a new theory that reunions are merely part of a conspiracy to get recent graduates to continue their educations.
New Look, New Logo:
Regular Metropolis readers will notice a different look to the...
The New Home Schooling:
Like many Pennsylvania children, eight-year-old Venus Kennedy has just begun third grade, but not in a new and unfamiliar classroom. She is doing all of her schooling from the comfort of her family home near Temple University.
Kennedy is among the thousands of youngsters in the Philadelphia region for whom the start of school this year means pulling up a chair in their living room, dining room or bedroom and logging on to a computer.
They are attending virtual schools - a fast-growing trend in K-12 education, enrolling about 175,000 students nationwide and estimated 23,000 in Pennsylvania.
