One Smart Mama

• Bored? Try doodling to keep the brain on task
  Fascinating findings about the benefits of doodling for concentration
• Robot teacher that can take the register and get angry
  Japan tests the first "robot" teacher; is this the natural next step in education?
• Robot teacher files grievance against Asimov's Three Laws
  Related: commentary on the "hands-tied" plight of many teachers
• The origins of summer vacation
  What we all thought we knew about our "natural" school schedule
• Ex-army mom drills battalion of scholars: Home school grows by word of mouth
  One Jamaican mom takes her children's education into her own hands.
  
• A handy little guide to small talk in the Stone Age
  Some interesting thoughts on enduring words: "I" and "three," for example.
• Live webcast of the 2009 National Conference
  Tune in March 19-21 for R.C. Sproul and others on "The Holiness of God"
• Fighting poverty, not each other
  Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel discuss possible ways "ideas trump ideology."