School Performance

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

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

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

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

Skipping first grade is not usually advisable.

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

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.

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

Learn tips to help your child prepare for a test.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It's important to enjoy your child's growing up process and to accept him as he is. Praise his achievements and give him help when he needs it, but don't take responsibility for his deadlines.