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Education Resources for Parents

With your help and such good resources as Parents as Teachers, education can begin for your child during infancy. Learn how to help your children achieve their highest academic potential. We offer articles that address issues of parenting children in daycare, preschool, elementary, middle school and junior high, high school, and even college. And you’ll find a Guide to Schools in the Local Resources section of each of our 16 Cities.

What can you do to support your child throughout the educational experience? We give tips on learning math, science, music, history and more. In which subjects would your child benefit from tutoring? What about testing? Is your child comfortable with test taking? What does your child need to get prepared for taking the ACT and SAT exams? Do you understand standardized testing?

Parenting Education - Articles of Education
Is Your Student Still Disorganized? This Is Your Second Chance to Organize a Study Environment for Your Child

How many times have you scrounged around the house for a ruler so your child can finish his math homework? Or worse, how many times has your child announced—at 9 p.m.—that he needs posterboard—which you don’t have—for an assignment due tomorrow—which was assigned two weeks ago?

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Jumpstarting Your Child’s G.P.A.: Easy Ways to Make Changes in Time for That College Application

Your child’s G.P.A. isn’t worrisome—but it isn’t high enough to brag about on your blog either.  Instead, it is just...mediocre, wavering between a B and C average. Does that mean a good college is out of the question? No – but it is a good reason to jumpstart the changes that can help boost those averages.

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Live on Stage Is Best First-Time Experience of Shakespeare at Any Age

Your child will study Shakespeare’s plays in middle or high school. But well before then, you can – and should – enjoy the plays together with your child in live performance. Here are tips from two theater critics and a director.

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Five Steps to Writing a Great College Essay





THE ROAD TO COLLEGE
A ONE-YEAR ACTION PLAN
FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
#14 of 20: October




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School Readiness: What Does That Mean Anyway?


There’s nothing wrong with helping a preschooler learn her ABC’s and her 123’s, but is it enough to ready her for kindergarten? A childhood education specialist sheds some light on the current standards.

 

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Regular Decision? Early Decision? Early Action? Are These Right for Me?
THE ROAD TO COLLEGE
A ONE-YEAR ACTION PLAN
FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
#12 of 20: August

Here’s a clear and concise explanation of the pros and cons of the three different ways to apply to college.
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