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An older crowd may look at a Minecraft game in action and wonder if it is a spin-off of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" music video. Built as a 16-bit sandbox (or "free-roaming") game, Minecraft's crude graphics call Legos to...

The Colt Caboodle is the school store run by 4th grade students at Brookwood Elementary School. Brooke Ahlers is part of a team of teacher sponsors that oversees the school store which is part of the school’s entrepreneurship program. She...

Valentine's Day is celebrated differently throughout the world according to customs and traditions. In the United States, the holiday arouses different connotations as it is commonly associated with romantic love. Whereas the holiday inspires some to propose marriage, others suffer...

Campaign fever is in the air! This year, the 2016 Presidential Election offers ample learning opportunities for students of all ages. The early grades will surely participate in many voting simulations as they choose among the best books in the...

Kristy Messner is the coordinator of The Pencil Box, the school store at the Belle Fourche Middle School in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. She took a few moments to tell us about their school store. “The Pencil Box is the...

Some claim that long hours spent on homework plagues today's students. Even if this is a myth, we can each surely recall a time when we struggled for too long on a particular assignment. Bad homework nights happen; if they...