Your Child's School

Being supportive of a teacher's policies can be difficult when your child has to suffer consequences.

Learn some technique to help children with reading and math trouble.

Understand the advantages and disadvantages of single-sex classrooms.

School uniforms can reduce violence, and help in other ways, as well.

Learn how to help your child prepare for standardized tests.

Retention is always a last resort, especially for students with learning disabilities.

Is it legal for my child to pray at school? Is it okay for the chorus to sing Christmas carols? Here are the answers to your most pressing questions about religion at school.

Discern the differences between a parochial school and a public school.

What can parents do when their daughter stops focusing on her high-school academics because they are "not relevant" to her chosen career of musical theater?

The pros and cons of year-round school are dealt with in this article.

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

This article describes the pros and cons of year-round schooling.

A mother seeks help for her teen with LD, who has not been helped in resource room and is now refusing to go to school.

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

This article discusses the pros and cons of school uniforms.

A six-year-old first grader is not about to choose a life of purposeful underachievement!

Read about the pros and cons of housing sixth-graders with ninth-graders.

Before jumping to conclusions, speak to your child's teachers and talk with your child to discover what's at the root of any academic problems.

How close should high-school teachers get to their students?

Learn how to help your child do well on standardized tests.