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2008-05-16 Behavior & Learning in School - retention: I'm sure that you are quite torn when having to make such a decision! If your child is receiving speech therapy, I would certainly ask if his language problems are interfering with his reading difficulty...
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2008-05-15 Behavior & Learning in School - Considering holding back my 4th grader.: The research on the effectiveness of retention after Kindergarten is not good. Unfortunately, most H.S. drop outs were retained one or more years past first grade. The fact that he is the youngest...
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2008-05-14 Elementary Educators - Parents on Field Trips: Hi Steven., In public schools, if this situation came up we announced that there was only room on the bus for X amount of people. This usually did the trick. If they persisted we told them that they...
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2008-05-14 Behavior & Learning in School - My 5yr old daughter: Lara, I suggest you set up a meeting with the school psychologist to discuss your daughter. If she has been like this the whole year, somethings wrong. It is possible she is not ready for school....
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2008-05-07 Elementary Educators - Kindergarten reading/phonics: Hi Joyce, Well, I'm a little biased, as I wrote up my own program after I used it to teach my 4 year old daughter to read in less than two months. I then used it as a handbook/manual/textbook in my...
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