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Joined EzineArticles on Feb 28, 2009 NY High School Regents Exams: Do We Still Need Them?
Reference and Education: Standardized Tests • Published: February 4, 2011
Today, over a century later, does it make sense that New York high schools continue to prepare students for Regents exams? Are Regents exams relevant or are they vestiges of an educational system of yesteryear? Let's look at some of the pros and cons.
Dyscalculia Symptoms in Grade School Children
Reference and Education: K 12 • Published: December 14, 2010
Dyscalculia is hard to diagnose before 2nd grade. Until the math gets a bit complex, dyscalculia symptoms stay hidden. However, the symptoms are pronounced after that.
Overcoming Math Struggles
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: October 4, 2010
Difficulties with Math challenge even the brightest kids. Discover how to figure out why you child struggling with math and how to help them.
Homework Versus Outside Activities
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: September 30, 2010
Homework isn't usually a child's favorite activity. However, when homework doesn't get done and is overwhelming, it's often because of too many outside activities.
Stressed Out Kids - Too Many Activities Get in the Way of School Success
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: August 17, 2010
School success isn't easy if kids are involved in too many outside activities. They need time for homework and time to relax. Find strategies for helping your child choose activities without overdoing it.
How to Help Your Kids Set Goals - Use the SMART Model
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: January 12, 2010
Help your child set goals at New Year's or any time. You've used SMART goals at work. You remember that SMART stands for specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. These are big words for little kids but the general principle still works. Kids can set SMART goals too.
Homework Hassles? Three Tools to Make it Easier
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: January 12, 2010
Sometimes homework can be a real hassle. Maybe it's that way in your home. Here are three quick and easy tips to help make doing homework easier and less stressful including time management, homework helper, and organizing papers.
School Success - What to Do If Your Child Isn't Learning
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: October 14, 2009
Learning disabilities are serious and need to be addressed or your child's difficulties in school may never be solved. And school success is out of reach. But how do you know if your child's problems stem from a learning disability or something else?
The Secret to School Success
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: October 13, 2009
To ensure school success, parents must support their children, respect them, and accept them for who they are. These three factors are the building blocks to positive self-esteem, which is of the highest importance to insure school success.
Does Your Child Have a Learning Disability? Three Tips For Parents
Reference and Education: K 12 • Published: October 8, 2009
When kids are forgetful and disorganized and have to use all their resources to survive each day, they may have a learning disability. Unless his teachers and parents understand how difficult it is for such a child, they won't be able to relate to him.
Does School Success Depend on AP Courses
Reference and Education • Published: August 5, 2009
Do AP classes cause too much stress for high school students? Are they necessary in order to get into a good college? Who should take them? How many should a student take at one time?
Is Your Child Too Tired to Succeed in School?
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 8, 2009
Lots of kids suffer from sleep deprivation. When they don't get enough sleep, kids don't have enough energy for school or for managing their emotions. Discover what you can do to assure your child gets enough sleep.
Driven to Succeed - Kids and Grades
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 8, 2009
Kids who work too hard at getting good grades, who stay up late studying, and melt down when they don't get A's are at risk for emotional problems. Find out how you can prevent these problems.
Does Multi-Tasking Interfere With School Success?
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 8, 2009
Your teen probably texts, listens to music, talks on the phone, and chats on MySpace and similar sites while doing homework. Does this multi-tasking get in the way of finishing homework? Find out what the research says.
Too Stressed For School Success?
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 8, 2009
Of course, kids stress out over big things happening in your family like cancer, job loss or divorce. They also get stressed out over small things (at least in your eyes) like what to wear or how to have their hair cut. Whatever the cause, stress is serious. Find out what you can do to lower your child's stress.
Dyscalculia - When Your Child Can't Do Math
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 7, 2009
Some children who struggle with math have dyscalculia, a math disability. Discover seven strategies that parents can use to help with their children with math.
Geometry Proofs - Three Reasons Kids Need to Learn How to Do Them
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 3, 2009
Why do we make kids go through the ordeal of doing geometry proofs? Find out why geometry is good for your child's brain development even if they aren't going to major in math.
Teaching Kids to Think Creatively - Seven Activities You Can Do at Home
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 3, 2009
Children are creative. But too much TV, too many video games, and too much school time devoted to "teaching to the tests" leaves them too little time for creative thinking. Creative thinking is an important life skill. Discover how to encourage creativity in your kids...
How to Help Your Disorganized Child - Seven Tips For Better Organization
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 3, 2009
Lots of kids seem to forget homework, tests, their jacket, even their lunch. Discover how you can help your child to be more organized and less forgetful.
SATs - Avoid Traps and Trust Yourself
Reference and Education • Published: April 2, 2009
Did you know that sometimes the SAT and PSAT questions can be misleading? Find out what some of these traps are and learn to trust yourself and the questions.
Dysgraphia - Seven Tips to Help Kids Who Can't Write
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 2, 2009
Children who have difficulty writing are often diagnosed as having a learning disability called "dysgraphia." Because writing is a basic skill, a child with dysgraphia can suffer poor grades in most of her classes. Find out what strategies you can use to help your child enjoy success in school.
Parenting Well - Your Child's School Success Depends on It
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: March 27, 2009
Children get most of their direction from you, their parent. They learn how to become responsible, how to follow rules, even how to make decisions from you. Seven easy parenting strategies will help your children be successful in school and all areas of their lives.
From Underachiever to Achiever - Three Tips For Parents
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: March 26, 2009
Millions of underachieving kids fall through the cracks in our school system every year. Is your child one of them? Learn how to tell if your child is an underachiever. Discover what you can do to help your child reach her potential.
How to Take Your SAT Exam - It's All About Attitude
Kids and Teens • Published: March 25, 2009
Worried about taking your SAT or PSAT exam? Afraid you won't do well. And what about those questions that you don't know? You'll do better on these exams if you go into them with a good attitude. Try the SAT game and the SAT sport to change your attitude.
Dyslexia - Why Your Child Can't Read
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: March 24, 2009
Millions of kids have poor reading skills. Some kids aren't motivated to read and rarely pick up a book. Many other children who do want to read struggle because of dyslexia. Since reading is essential, parents need to know the signs of dyslexia and how to help their child become a good reader. School success depends on reading.