Ah, September! The season of Back to School. Me, I’m always back to school, relying on books and web sites to teach me what I don’t know—whether it’s what I haven’t learned yet, what I didn’t learn the first time around, or what I forgot since last week.

In the spirit of life-long learning, let me share with you my two favorite web sites from halls of higher learning.
Purdue OWL
I turn to the OWL when I want to dig deep and learn more about some aspect of writing.

The acronym O W L (apart from being a metaphor for wisdom) …

November 10, 1969

This was the first day upon which someone could tune their TV into a National Education Television station and here the now culturally pervasive jingle, “Sunny days keeping the clouds away….”

Yes, forty years ago today Sesame Street was born on the ailing network soon to be replaced by the federally funded Public Broadcasting System.

From the beginning, Sesame Street was developed with a curriculum in mind, and a philosophy that education and entertainment should be integrated - and an understanding that it was okay to pursue broad educational goals because a breadth of topics would be more likely to …