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Here a few lines by Benedict Carey, “Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits,” The New York Times, September 6, 2010…   ” ‘We have known these principles [for improved study] for some time, and it’s intriguing that schools don’t … Continue reading →

Just stumbled across this program… inspiring! http://cltl.umassd.edu/home-flash.cfm Convicts in MA may participate in a literacy program as an alternative to being sentenced. They are required to read and discuss a range of novels… leading to a deeper and more effective … Continue reading →

Many people may not know yet that Google has an extremely effective and generous grants program that helps nonprofits connect with their audience. Our Vocabulary Junction campaign, for example, has been made possible by their grant and it had a … Continue reading →

We recently got a grant expansion that allows us to dare and undertake a campaign I've been dreaming of for a long time. This will be the first year for Vocabulary Junction, giving free tutoring to third graders in the … Continue reading →

We switched the flip… flipped the switch… we're LIVE! Really enjoying our new site and getting lots of great responses… and of course questions for the new Pay-Per-Result.It takes people a while to understand that WE MEAN IT… on our … Continue reading →

Our nonprofit has entered the race to win a Chase Community grant, and we need your help! The grants are given to the top 200 nonprofits based on votes. We heard about this just recently, and still need about 800 … Continue reading →

I just heard from one of our members. He’s heading for the National Spelling Bee finals in Washington D.C. in early June and very excited. Over the last few years, our site has become a major hub for these amazing … Continue reading →

The newsletter from the Dana Foundation is always highly interesting. Today’s news stream debunked the “fancy myth” of learning styles and that somehow somewhat somebody could actually made sense out of all that hype and turn it into results. Here … Continue reading →

With spring and a flavor of change in the air, we at eSpindle Learning are feverishly at work, making major changes to our website. By end of May, www.espindle.org will re-launch as http://www.LearnThatWord.org. Instead of the membership model we will … Continue reading →

The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article called Divided Attention a few days ago. The amount of information in our life has grown so much so quickly that most of us multitask to varying degrees. And there is some … Continue reading →