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Childhood Learning and Education
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- The Early Adolescent Achievement Drop
- Computers and Young Children
- Helping Your Child Learn Math
- Ability Grouping in Elementary Schools
- School Completion 2000: Dropout Rates and Their Implications for Meeting the National Goal
- Students with Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments
- Serving a Multicultural Population
- Learning Partners: Activities to Help Children Learn
- Learning Language is a Family Affair
- Childhood Literacy - Early Efforts Yield Lifelong Results
- College Tutors Bring America Reads Program to Life
- Creating a Language-Rich Environment Increases Literacy Potential in Young Children
- Questions Policymakers Must Ask to Ensure All Kids Get a Chance to Become Masters of Literacy
- Promoting Literacy in Your Child-Care Program
- Helping with Homework: A Parent's Guide to Information Problem-Solving
- The Effects of Competition on Educational Outcomes
- The Transition to Middle School
- Strategies for Identifying the Talents of Diverse Students
- Teaching College Students with Learning Disabilities
- The Risks of Learning
- Small Scale and School Culture: The Experience of Private Schools
- He Has a Summer Birthday: The Kindergarten Entrance Age Dilemma
- Access to Literacy for Language Minority Adults
- The Effects of Homogeneous Groupings in Mathematics
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice: What Does Research Tell Us?
- Focus on After-School Time for Violence Prevention
- Multiage Grouping and Academic Achievement
- Debate and Communication Skills
- Parent Participation in Middle School Language Arts
- "Do's & Don'ts" for Encouraging Early Childhood Literacy
- Helping Children Manage Their School Work
- Holding Child Back a Year
- Ready for Kindergarten
- Adoption and Your Child's Teachers
- Careers in Early Childhood Education
- Adoption Resources for Teachers
- The Importance of Play
- An Age by Age Guide to Buying Toys - Birth to Six Months
- An Age-by-Age Guide to Buying Toys - Six Months to One Year
- An Age-by-Age Guide to Buying Toys - One to Two Years
- An Age-by-Age Guide to Buying Toys - Age Two to Three Years
- An Age-by-Age Guide to Buying Toys - Three to Six Years
- An Age-by-Age Guide to Buying Toys - Six to Nine Years
- An Age-by-Age Buying Guide for Toys - Nine To Twelve Years
- New School
- Homeschooling Headaches
- Preparing for Starting Kindergarten
- Older Kids Benefit from Parent Involvement -- Whether They Invite or Not
- Barriers to Family Involvement Must be Addressed
- Teachers Play a Pivotal Role in Involving Families in Learning
- Research Proves That Family-School Connections Can Improve Learning if They're Created with Care
- Business as Partners in Education
- Transition from Day Care to School
- Nurturing Seeds of Promise
- Encouraging Reading
- Support the Arts
- Positive Female Role Playing
- Reading Readiness
- Homework Headaches
- HHS, Education Launch Research to Promote School Readiness Effort
- The Role of Curriculum Models in Early Childhood Education
- When Your Child Hates School
- Life Skills Article
- Life Skills Column
- Life Skills Column
- Where Are the Little Children?
- School Work - Whose Job Is It?
- Teach Vocational Skills, Too
- When Kids Steal
- Making A Family Tree For The Adoptee
- Using the Franklin List
- Talking to Younger Children About Sex
- The Influence of Music/Music Videos
- Great Expectations
- "New and Improved" IEP* Meetings:
- Instilling A Good Work Ethic in Your Teens
- Celebrating Transitions in the Early Years
- Handling Homework Battles
- The ABC's to Building Your Child's Library
- Education and the Child of Trauma
- Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises
- The Five Types of Parental Involvement
- 10 Signs of a Great Preschool
- Adopted Children in the Early Childhood Classroom
- Parent Tips: Set 2-The Family Pet
- Top 10 Signs of a Good Kindergarten Classroom.
- Parent Tips: Set 1-Ending Homework Hassles
- After the Stand: Be a Children's Champion
- Let's Do Homework!
- America's Kindergartners:
- Five Ways to Help Your Kids "Make the Grade"
- Books for Junior High School Aged Children
- Getting Kids Turned on to Books - Part Two: Choosing Children's Books
- Getting Kids Turned On to Books-Part Three
- Getting Kids Turned On to Books-Part Four
- School & Adoption: Navigating IEPs, IDEA, and Special Services
- Into the Minds of Babes
- An Easy and Scientific Way to Increase a Child's Creativity and Imagination
- Preparing Your Child for Child Care
- Identifying, Understanding and Helping Your Child With Adoption Issues During Middle-Childhood - Par
- Early Learning - The Key to Success in Life
- Mixed-Age Groups in Early Childhood Education
- Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring. ERIC Digest, Number 79.
- Nongraded and Mixed-Age Grouping in Early Childhood Programs.
- Computer Assisted Writing Instruction
- Getting Kids Turned on to Books - Part One: Discovering the Joy of Reading
- Volunteering at Your Child's School
- Learning the Language of Adoption:
- Children and Sports: Don't Forget to Practice Sportsmanship!
- Cooperative Learning
- Creating the Peaceable School: A Comprehensive Program for Teaching Conflict Resolution
- Families Learning Together - The Strength of Family Literacy
- Fathers! Grandfathers! Significant Males! Read to Children!
- Getting the Most Out of Parent-Teacher Conferences
- The Changing Face of Parenting Education
- Solid Foundation: Linking Schools and Families
- Transition to High School:
- Transition to Middle School:
- Truancy: Helpful Information for Parents
- Understanding Reading and Writing Acquisition While Holding Standards High
- Creating a New Vision of School Psychology: Emerging Models of Psychological Practice in Schools
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The Early Adolescent Achievement Drop
Early adolescence can often be the enemy of school achievement. Between the ages of 9 and 13, children often rebel against the educational system at their own expense.... [more]
Computers and Young Children
Educators use computers with young children in ways that are developmentally inappropriate.... [more]
Helping Your Child Learn Math
It discusses what children are learning in mathematics and provides parents with some guidance and World Wide Web resources that can benefit them in assisting their child.... [more]
Ability Grouping in Elementary Schools
Summarizes the effects found, and presents Slavin's recommendations for schools and teachers regarding ability grouping.... [more]
School Completion 2000: Dropout Rates and Their Implications for Meeting the National Goal
The dropout problem is most severe in central cities, least severe in suburban areas, with nonmetro areas in the middle.... [more]
Students with Physical Disabilities and Health Impairments
Information sheet defines physical disabilities and health impairments, describes characteristics of students with these conditions, outlines special considerations necessary in assessing these students, notes key educational considerations.... [more]
Serving a Multicultural Population
Research and information on multicultural population.... [more]
Learning Partners: Activities to Help Children Learn
Information about Educational Activities for Families.... [more]
Learning Language is a Family Affair
Information on the importance of parents who don't speak english at home and their involvement with their children in English speaking society.... [more]
Childhood Literacy - Early Efforts Yield Lifelong Results
Answers to questions about the importance of parental involvement in their children's literacy.... [more]
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