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    School Performance

    The attitude you have about your child's teacher can affect your child's success with that teacher.

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    Your Child's School

    Encourage your teen to participate in an after-school program.

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    School Performance

    Skipping first grade is not usually advisable.

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    School Performance

    When a student is embarrassed by his freshman year performance, he needs to perform a self-exam of his academic year.

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    School Performance

    Most children do not "catch up" when held back. Retention won't turn them into successful students unless the reasons for their continuing struggles are addressed.

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    School Performance

    Our expert advises a parent to help her underachieving son understand his responsibilities for completing homework.

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    School Performance

    Learn tips to help your child prepare for a test.

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    Your Child's School

    Learn how to find directories for schools that teach children with learning disabilities.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    A mother disagrees with the administrators of her son's school, who believe he has received a "fair and appropriate public education" and should graduate.

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    Your Child's School

    If you are concerned about your school's ranking, take a look at it with your own eyes first.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    It is not at all unusual for gifted kids to immerse themselves in a single subject or interest to the exclusion of other topics.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Begin by conferencing with your son's school counselor, all his teachers, and him to determine what exactly is going on and to work out a plan.

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    Your Child's School

    Learn how magnet schools differ from other public schools.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Think carefully before allowing your child to leap ahead in the curriculum during the school year.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Read why this expert feels that retention usually doesn't work.

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Not doing well might be a bid for attention -- any kind of attention, even if it's bad.

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    Your Child's School

    Is there an advantage to having grades K-6 in the same school, as opposed to grouping K-2 and 3-6?

  • School and Learning
    School Performance

    Learn a number of steps that might make test-taking easier for an anxious child.

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