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School and Learning, Your Child's School, School Performance
School and Learning, Your Child's School, School Performance
School and Learning, Your Child's School, School Performance
School and Learning, Your Child's School, School Performance
  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Our expert suggests how to keep a child on-task with his homework.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Our expert offers a number of suggestions to a gifted high-schooler who complains of boredom.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    This article offers a guide for parents struggling with how to react to their child's negative report card.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Slipping grades might indicate a bigger problem than learning to adjust to middle school.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    The attitude you have about your child's teacher can affect your child's success with that teacher.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Skipping first grade is not usually advisable.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    When a student is embarrassed by his freshman year performance, he needs to perform a self-exam of his academic year.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Most children do not "catch up" when held back. Retention won't turn them into successful students unless the reasons for their continuing struggles are addressed.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Our expert advises a parent to help her underachieving son understand his responsibilities for completing homework.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Learn tips to help your child prepare for a test.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    A mother disagrees with the administrators of her son's school, who believe he has received a "fair and appropriate public education" and should graduate.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    It is not at all unusual for gifted kids to immerse themselves in a single subject or interest to the exclusion of other topics.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Begin by conferencing with your son's school counselor, all his teachers, and him to determine what exactly is going on and to work out a plan.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Think carefully before allowing your child to leap ahead in the curriculum during the school year.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Read why this expert feels that retention usually doesn't work.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Not doing well might be a bid for attention -- any kind of attention, even if it's bad.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Learn a number of steps that might make test-taking easier for an anxious child.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    When a child is rushing through her work, the real problem is finding out why.

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