Fake News? Why The Median Matters
Pop quiz! What’s the difference between the mean and the median in a data set? You probably learned this long ago while learning percentages and … [Read more...] about Fake News? Why The Median Matters
Pop quiz! What’s the difference between the mean and the median in a data set? You probably learned this long ago while learning percentages and … [Read more...] about Fake News? Why The Median Matters
In Lewis Carroll’s childhood classic Alice in Wonderland, Alice hears a curious little poem about a creature called a Jabberwock that begins with the … [Read more...] about How The Jabberwocky Can Teach Your Student Grammar
Every story takes place in time and thus has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an ending. Imagine trying to tell a friend about a family … [Read more...] about How Many Verb Tenses are in The English Language?
Demme Learning is an independent family-owned and operated publishing company. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Demme Learning has been providing innovative learning solutions for homeschoolers, parents and small group learning environments since 1990.
Dear Homeschool Parents, The New Year is here! But before you jump back into school mode, take a moment to reflect on what you accomplished so far … [Read more...] about Post-Holiday Encouragement for Homeschool Parents
As educators, parents, counselors, or other dedicated childcare providers, we all want kids to grow up in safety and security. But unfortunately, we … [Read more...] about How Adverse Experiences Can Impede Your Student’s Learning
Gretchen Roe educated her children at home for 21 years. With a degree in child development, she laughingly says it was not necessarily helpful for raising her own six children. She owned her own business for 15 years, as well as being involved in several nonprofit boards. She has spent the last 10 years in positions of homeschool advocacy and comes to Demme Learning as a Placement Specialist. She loves the outdoors, all things furry, and is in the process of learning farming and beekeeping skills.
Our customer success team genuinely cares about the families we serve. Today we’d like to share three brief stories of how our customer success team … [Read more...] about 3 Stories of Turning Math Struggles into Math Success
Gretchen Roe educated her children at home for 21 years. With a degree in child development, she laughingly says it was not necessarily helpful for raising her own six children. She owned her own business for 15 years, as well as being involved in several nonprofit boards. She has spent the last 10 years in positions of homeschool advocacy and comes to Demme Learning as a Placement Specialist. She loves the outdoors, all things furry, and is in the process of learning farming and beekeeping skills.
As we enter December, you may be evaluating your academic experience thus far this year. Here are some of the conversations we are having with parents … [Read more...] about 5 Math Conversations We Are Having This Time of Year
Lisa serves as a Learning and Development Specialist with Demme Learning. While she holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Central Florida, she seems to find herself consistently pulled towards education in some capacity. Lisa and her husband Chris have been married for 30+ years and are the parents of three homeschool graduates.
It has become a bit of a cliché to describe the year 2020 as unprecedented. 2020 has forced us as a company to adapt to new situations and overcome … [Read more...] about 10 Tips for Working Remotely [Infographic]
Consider two twin brothers, John and George, who work as a human resources clerk for a bank and a taxi driver, respectively. In his book Antifragile, … [Read more...] about The Thanksgiving Turkey Problem: Resilience and Antifragility
