Using Time Wisely, A Post-Kindergarten Lesson

by Kevin Burton    I started school in Bermuda. So I don’t know if this was a thing stateside.    But a box toward the bottom of my kindergarten and first grade report cards read: “Uses Time Wisely.”    Funny, I remember that, but I don’t recall what my teachers wrote in that box. I …

A New Tool In The Fight For Braille Literacy

by Kevin Burton    Last week we ran a story about subjects that are either gone from classrooms or close to it (“Subjects No Longer Taught (Much) In Schools,” March 6.)    That got me thinking about Braille.     While growing up at the Ohio State School for the Blind, I just assumed that all …