While you are making plans to see "Red Tails", the film about the Tuskegee Airmen produced by George Lucas (try to go this weekend!), also make a note to check out "Double Victory", Lucas' documentary companion to "Red Tails", on The History Channel. Originally aired earlier this month, "Double Victory" will be shown again on The History Channel as [...]
GCP has previously featured articles about what teachers and coaches can learn from one another. Today we focus on what parents can learn from football. Regardless of how much of a football fan you are during the rest of the season, it is hard not to focus on the game during the playoffs. And even we novice watchers learn [...]
If you are looking for interesting ways to enable your children to focus on the life and work of Dr. King on his holiday, take a look at the King lessons and activities on educationworld.com, found here. Although these activities were collected for teachers to use in the classroom, many of them are easy for you to do with [...]
Red Tails is an action film inspired by the heroic exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all African American World War II aerial combat unit. Directed by Anthony Hemingway ("The Wire"), from a screenplay by John Ridley ("Undercover Brother") and Aaron McGruder ("The Boondocks"), the film features a powerful ensemble cast led by Oscar winner Cuba Gooding and [...]
GCP is compiling a list of interesting sites for parents to browse and bookmark. We will add to the list whenever we find good ones, and encourage you to suggest your favorites as well. Here are a few, there are more to come: PBS Parents: Trust PBS, the people who bring you all of that wonderful educational children's programming, [...]
I'll bet you can easily name your favorite elementary school teacher, no matter how long it has been since your elementary school days. (Mine was Mrs. Portia Patterson, my third grade teacher at P.S. 116.) A good elementary school teacher can encourage you to love school and set you on the path to academic success. A recent study conducted [...]
Time to tackle a tough subject: how to protect our sons from sexual predators. With this issue so much in the news, it seems our boys are more vulnerable than ever to deviant behavior by trusted adults. GCP recently attended a seminar on child sex offenders offered by child and adolescent psychotherapist Alicia Henderson, Ph.D. to find out more [...]
Walter Dean Myers, award-winning author of "Hoops", "Monster", Fallen Angels," "Sunrise Over Fallujah", and many other young adult novels, has been named the nation's third Ambassador for Young People's Literature. As the new (and first African American) National Ambassador, Myers will tour the country for two years, speaking at schools and libraries about reading and literacy. Myers, 74, will [...]
Here's an inspirational story for you, as reported in Yahoo! Sports: Braylon Edwards, who was a Cleveland Browns rookie in 2005, promised back then to give $10,000 in scholarships to 100 Cleveland area eighth-graders if they could graduate high school with over a 2.5 GPA and 15 hours community service. Of the 100 who were afforded the opportunity, 79 [...]
Here's an important New Year's Resolution to add to your list: Get more engaged and involved with your son's education in 2012!!! According to research reviewed by the National Coalition for Parent Involvement, when parents are involved with their child’s education, the student earns higher grades and tests scores, has better social skills, and is more likely to enroll [...]