Education & Learning

When I took my first creative writing class, I was only a teenager. There was a creative writing enrichment program at an art college down the street, and I thought that I could use it as a way to develop my poetry. My parents liked the idea a lot. They loved my writing, and they [...]

When I was a kid, I wanted to take guitar, but my mom made me take keyboard lessons instead. She argued that the best thing to do was to learn music theory. After that, I could go anywhere with it. I would be allowed to learn basically any instrument I wanted within reason. I wasn’t [...]

Gifted children need extra help in their studies to make sure they can learn at the appropriate level. The Summer Institute for the Gifted (aka SIG) is a program designed for children and teenagers, meeting their academic and social needs. The program began in 1984 and many students have taken advantage of it and enjoyed [...]

Whether you want a career as a fashion designer or a career in merchandising, marketing or journalism relating to fashion, the best starting point is to attend a Fashion Design School. There are plenty schools to choose from with courses based on practical application and theory, leading to an interesting and potentially lucrative career. Brooks [...]

You may not think about doing much more online than using email and looking up information about whatever is on your mind. There is so much more to the Internet, and you can help with just about anything. If you are looking for learning online for kids, you just have to look in the right [...]

Whether you’re a native English speaker or have emigrated from another country, every one can stand to improve English speech, writing, comprehension and rhetorical skills. Language is our means of communication. When you advance your language skills, you become a better communicator and thus meet with greater success in your social and business interactions. Misunderstandings, [...]

It is amazing to see the transformation in the area of media studies in the last couple of decades. The study of media, after all, used to be a pretty fringe fields. Sure, there was some study of classical music and high art cinema, to say nothing of literature, but popular culture was always considered [...]

There are some great programs online that you can use to further your education. Though there are always going to be some courses of study that require you to attend a college, some can be done from home and completed almost exclusively without ever stepping foot on a campus. Some of these are basic degrees, [...]

I have always considered myself to be a good parent, but I never knew how many things I didn’t know about my little ones until I took a class in child development psychology. I have been interested in child development and psychology for as long as I can remember so, when I went back to [...]

Finding the right tutoring services can be very difficult. Some learning centers make promises that they just can’t keep, while other ones are so obscure that it is almost impossible to hear about them unless you have connections. I used to provide tutor services at a learning center, so I know all about it. We [...]