School and Learning

Our expert suggests steps a mother can take to solve her son's problem of talking in class.

The best way to combat your child's learning difficulties is to team up with the teacher. Find tips on communicating with your child's teacher.

Are irresponsibility and distraction reasons to retain a child?

Learn how to reconcile your child's grades with his academic placement.

There are steps parents can take both to enforce the IEP and to obtain compensatory services to make up for the lost services.

It's appropriate for a "new" teenager to want to make her own decisions about her life, and to resent being the one who has often been placed in the caretaker role of her brothers.

It's not fair to hold your child to a particular standard for letter grades and push/demand that she meet those.

It's not unusual for kids in private/parochial schools to think they are missing out on a much richer and more stimulating life in public school.

A parent believes that her child was treated unfairly by his teacher after he was "involved" in an incident at school.

The mother of "insubordinate" children is advised to seek the mediation of a sympathetic guidance counselor to reframe the present situation.

Let your son's first exposure to learning and socializing in a public school be free of parents' pressuring him to learn things.

"Hating" school is normal behavior at any age, for any number of understandable reasons.

Our expert outlines steps a parent can take to get more involved with her child's school.

When a school schedule is overloaded, it is worthwhile to open up a dialogue with school administrators.

When teasing becomes hurtful, one solution is to bring kids and adults into classrooms to discuss their "differences."

Tips for how to help a child build better study skills and retention of content.

Parochial, private, and public school education can all benefit kids.

Our expert sorts through the possible explanations and ramifications of an eighth-grader's test findings.