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131: Alternative Education: Finding Solutions to Educational Shortcomings
Educators have long struggled to understand why some students fail to thrive in traditional classroom settings (Quinn et al., 2006). Some contended the problem lies within educational programmi..
132: Essay on Autism: The Possible Role of a Pleasure Response Deficiency in Cognitive and Language Development
ESSAY ON AUTISM:
THE ROLE OF A POSSIBLE PLEASURE RESPONSE DEFICIENCY
IN LANGUAGE..
133: Bullying and your child
Many children have to cope with bullying. There are different types of bullying and some are easier to cope with than others - here are some pointers
Types of bullying:
Name-calling
Sp..
134: Ditch the Homework!
According to educator Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth, multiple educational studies have found that contrary to our currently accepted thinking about schooling, “all empirical evidence d..
135: It's About the Quality, not Grades!
The purpose of schooling is to teach our children to learn and produce quality work. In order to accomplish this goal, our schools must re-think the ways in which they view the educ..
136: Help! My Child Won't Read or Write
Many parents and teacher struggle with the same problem: motivating children to read and write. Both recognize the critical importance of this life-skill. Reading is the gateway to knowledge. Re..
137: Process vs. On Demand Writing
Writing research has shown that one key ingredient to writing success is time. Developing writers need time to learn the writing craft, time to research/brainstorm, time to draft, and time to re..
138: Alternative Education and the ADD - ADHD Child
A recent article in USA Today reports that home schooling has been on a steady rise for the last five years. There are now 1.5 million children being home schooled, up 74% since 1999. A desire for re..
139: Empowering Readers
One of the questions that teachers and parents ask is how to help students transition the phonetic skills they are learning to their reading skills. The most important way to ensure a stu..
140: Homeschooling: Why It's Important To Everyone
President Obama is pushing for so-called national standards. I worry that if the Education Establishment has its way, we’ll have one type of government school--all mediocre, all overflowing w..
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