Study Skills

Our expert offers tips and strategies for getting your child to do his homework.

Students in the middle grades often have one of two reasons for not handing in assignments: lack of organization, or a fear that success will lead to "not fitting in."

An expert describes a step-by-step approach for getting a handle on the homework workload.

Seven years old is young to be lacking in motivation. Take steps to find out why.

Get ideas on how to help students who hate doing homework.

Your child deserves to be in classes in which it's easy for learning to occur.

Find ways to help your child study for spelling tests.

School-wide homework policies can help monitor how much homework your child receives each night.

What can you do to help improve your child's sloppy schoolwork?

Learn strategies to foster basic skills in a ten-year-old.

Here are the tips and resources you need to help you and your kids survive the end of school and enjoy summer.

Use summer school to help a child get a strong foundation of basics.

Find advice on how to select a tutor for your child.

Learn about the various facets of thinking skills and how to foster them in your chilren.

Learn how to set rules for homework time and hand the homework responsibility over to your child.

Explore options for summer fun and learning beyond reading and math.

When tutoring does not seem to be helping a child, it's time to look at the program and the service being provided.

Help your student acquire better study skills.