CBS News Lessons from Scholastic With the horror of what happened at the U.S. Capitol this past week still sinking in, there is an important question: How to explain it to America's children? "Kids want to understand it," said Dick Robinson, president and CEO of Scholastic. "The Capitol is a symbol. It's very important to them." And so, Robinson said, his editors immediately started posting stories for students on the websites of Scholastic magazines. "In fourth grade we'll explain it one way; in eighth grade we'll explain it another way," he said. In fact, Scholastic – the largest publisher of children's magazines and books in the world – is just marking its 100th anniversary of helping children make sense of things: