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The Best Affordable Laptops for Back-to-School

These budget-friendly laptops are perfect for students and casual web surfers. You're welcome!

The Most Stylish and Fun Backpacks for School and Work

Zappos has the best selection of backpacks to tote your gear to work and school. Here are our favorites, from...


40 Best Back-to-School Sales Happening Right Now

Back-to-school sales are officially in full swing, and you're about to save big. Funnel your newfound cash into your kids’...


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40 Back to School Memes That’ll Crack You Up

Whether you're a longtime parent or brand new teacher, you'll be cackling at these memes before the big day.


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How Hackers Could Use Virtual Schooling to Steal Your Information

Are you doing everything you can to keep your family safe during the pandemic? If you’re not taking proactive measures...

11 Old-School Classroom Items Everyone Forgets

When's the last time you saw an overhead projector? Take a trip down memory lane with these old-school school items.


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Heartwarming Stories of Teachers Who Changed Their Students’ Lives

Good educators share knowledge. 
Great ones make an impression that stays in their students’ hearts forever.


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The 34 Most Inspirational Quotes About Teaching

These teacher quotes truly capture the priceless value of all educators and how their influence can touch lives.


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12 Homeschooling Cartoons Every Parent Will Relate to Right Now

A lot of parents around the world had to learn how to become teachers overnight. Sometimes, the only way to...

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14 Things to Do Now to Prepare for Back to School

Whether the kids will be distance learning or in-person learning this school year, here are 14 back-to-school transition tips you...


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The Real Reason the School Year Doesn’t Start in January

This year, going back to school is fraught with challenges and personal decisions. But while we're on the subject, isn’t...


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12 Tech Tools Kids Can’t Learn Without This Fall

Tech and education experts share the tools and must-have gear that will help kids thrive in the coming school year.


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12 Back-to-School Essentials Every Kid Will Need During a Pandemic

Learn which products, tools, and gear will help protect your child against coronavirus if they are heading back to school...


33 Middle School Vocabulary Words Adults Still Get Wrong

Think you have a strong vocabulary? See how many of these common 8th grade reading words you can recognize when...


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Read One Teacher’s Genius Response to the Question “What Do You Make?”

Teacher Taylor Mali's unforgettable, searing retort to a thoughtless question certainly put a dinner companion in his place—and can make...


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Here’s Why People Give Teachers Apples

The story behind this one goes all the way back to schoolhouses on the western frontier.


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11 Ways Teachers Are Going Above and Beyond During Coronavirus

Teaching isn't just a profession—it's a calling. No one embodies this more than these inspirational, innovative teachers, who are doing...


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18 Things Homeschooling Made Us Appreciate About Teachers

Can you suspend your kid from homeschool?


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I’m a Teacher—Here’s How Homeschooling Is Changing How I Teach

After 40 days (and counting!) homeschooling my own children, while virtually teaching my own high school classes, I'll return to...