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Your College Admissions Questions Answered by Experts: Here’s How

GCP parents, do you have a son or daughter thinking about college?  Want to have your burning questions about the college admissions process answered by a top college dean of admissions?  Then here is some exciting news:  This Friday, July 26, I am joining Eric Furda, Dean of Admissions of the University of Pennsylvania, as a guest on his Sirius XM Radio Show "The Process", which [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:58:30-04:00July 23rd, 2019|Academics, Admissions, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 8-12, Experts, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources|Comments Off on Your College Admissions Questions Answered by Experts: Here’s How

Thoughtful Thursday: A Small Needful Fact

There will be just one poem for today's Thoughtful Thursday.  "A Small Needful Fact",  by Ross Gay, pays tribute to Eric Garner, whose life was ended in 2014 by a police officer's illegal and deadly chokehold during an attempt to arrest him.  The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.  A Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:58:30-04:00July 18th, 2019|Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: A Small Needful Fact

Helping Our Kids Deal With Racial Insensitivity

The NYT article "When a Black Student Plays Along With the K.K.K. Joke, What's a College to Do?", written by Ronald Crutcher, the (African American) president of the University of Richmond, details the aftermath of his discovery of an 1980 photo of U. Richmond white students dressed as Ku Klux Klansmen surrounding a grinning African American student posing with [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00July 16th, 2019|Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Helping Our Kids Deal With Racial Insensitivity

Thoughtful Thursday: Summertime Poetry

As we near mid July, today's Thoughtful Thursday celebrates Summer.  We do so with a variety of poems about summer from a variety of poets.  We start with a classic from Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), who "In Summer" waxes eloquently about a song for a summer's day.  Then we have a delightful ode to a "Firefly", a familiar summer [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00July 11th, 2019|Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Summertime Poetry

It’s National Summer Learning Week! How Are You Celebrating?

National Summer Learning Week,  July 8 - 13,  is a celebration of keeping kids learning, safe, and healthy every summer, ensuring they return to school in the fall ready to succeed in the year.  Established over 25 years ago by the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA), the celebration this year will have a daily focus on a different theme: [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00July 9th, 2019|Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on It’s National Summer Learning Week! How Are You Celebrating?

Thoughtful Thursday: Commemorating the Fourth of July with Langston Hughes

It's Independence Day!  We celebrate this Thoughtful Thursday on our nation's birthday with two poems from one of our most beloved poets, Langston Hughes (1902-1967).  In "I Too",  Hughes imagines a future in which he will truly be seen as an American.  In "Let America Be America Again", he laments that the principals of freedom on which our nation was [...]

Summer Reading Starts NOW!!!

Summer's here and it's time to make sure your kids are set with their summer reading booklists, goals and plans.  Here are some tips and resources to help you get going: Scholastic Read-a-Palooza Summer Reading Challenge:  Once again, children's book publisher Scholastic is offering a great summer reading program for children of all ages. After signing up on the [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00July 2nd, 2019|Academics, Ages 0-4, Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Books, Featured, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Summer Reading Starts NOW!!!

Thoughtful Thursday: Politics and Poetry

Politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose, former New York governor Mario Cuomo once said.  But we are didn't hear much poetry during this week's Democratic Presidential Candidate's debates.  So for today's Thoughtful Thursday we offer a few political poems.  We start with "America" from Claude McKay (1889-1948), a bittersweet ode to our nation. From Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00June 27th, 2019|Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 8-12, Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Politics and Poetry

School Year-End Tips

    School's out or almost out for most of our children. Reports cards have been issued or are on their way.  Your children are undoubtably relieved and happy that another school year is done, and everyone's thoughts are turning to summer vacation. But before you close the chapter on the last school year, why not spend some time [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00June 25th, 2019|Academics, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Ages 8-12, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Resources, Uncategorized|Comments Off on School Year-End Tips

Big Boys Do Cry…And It’s Fine

Last night I watched the first few minutes of the NBA draft, and saw the top three draft picks learn what teams they'd be playing for.  For those of you paying no attention whatsoever, the Pelicans had the #1 pick and chose Zion Williamson from Duke, the Grizzlies had the #2 pick and chose Ja Morant from Murray State, [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:57:40-04:00June 21st, 2019|Ages 0-5, Ages 13-15, Ages 16-18, Ages 5-7, Entertainment, Featured, Latest News, Parents, Saving Our Sons|Comments Off on Big Boys Do Cry…And It’s Fine
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