back to school

Yep, it's that time of year again: BACK TO SCHOOL! Parents everywhere are making their paper chain counting down to that first week in September. The only thing left to do is the back-to-school shopping.

Yep, it's that time of year again: BACK TO SCHOOL! Parents everywhere are making their paper chain counting down to that first week in September. The only thing left to do is the back-to-school shopping.

If you've been too busy playing Madden this week to keep up with the Democratic National Convention and haven't read a newspaper because, well, it's a newspaper, then let Jack FM make you feel informed with our first editon of This Week in Not Quite History...Yet.

I've been working minimum-wage jobs since I was 16. I’ve worked in four-star restaurants, babysat for every neighbor and freelanced ever since I tricked people into paying me to write. But the worst job of all? Retail.

In early June, we were eagerly anticipating the day when department stores would begin displaying their back-to-school sales (Christmas will be here soon, too!). But unfortunately, the time to actually go back to school has officially arrived, and we're much less excited about it than we were about the premature sales.

Somehow another summer has flown by and the kiddos are headed back to school again. Sure, that means vacations are over, the house will be empty and days at the pool are numbered. But what it also means is that it’s time to shop for supplies.

You know about shopping holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but how about Back-to-School Saturday?

School is almost back in session, which means it’s time to start brushing up on tips for taking the bus. The school bus can be a great resource for time-strapped parents and independence-seeking children alike. But it also needs to be approached with safety and care. Here are five tips to make your child’s bus ride the best it can be.

Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it, too? With a good carpool in place, you can save time and money. It just takes a little bit of planning and a willingness to flow with whatever the morning gives you. Here are five tips to help your carpool get off without a hitch.

We've got ten good reason schools shouldn’t be cutting arts budgets: these great songs about their hallowed halls. After all, if they eliminated music classes, who’s gonna write songs about how cool school is?