School and Learning

Learn how to communicate with a teacher who assigns your child too much homework.

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

How can you improve spelling, vocabulary, and writing skills and have fun at the same time? Pick up some poetry!

Teens represent the fastest growing segment of the homeschool population. The good news is, homechooling seems to be a very successful option. I can suggest some articles to help you get started.

Learn why homeschoolers certainly are welcomed into colleges and universities.

Read tips to determine whether your young child is being challenged in school.

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

Learn from an expert how to talk to your child when he says he dislikes school.

This expert explains that the focus in the typical kindergarten class is on teaching children pre-reading skills.

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

Finding topics of interest is a common problem for young readers with advanced ability.

Yes, there may be advantages to homeschooling your dyslexic child, and no, in most states you do not have to be specially trained to teach your child.

There are ways to determine if your child is reading on his grade level. But you do not have to judge your homeschooled child by traditional school standards.

Homeschooling means learning outside of the public or private school environment. For most families, their "schooling" involves being out and about each day, learning from the rich resources available in their community, and through interactions with other families who homeschool.

Even when a learning disabled child is making little progress, for their social health it may be better to keep them with children their own age.

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

When a child's aptitude in a particular subject is declining, you can take steps to reverse the trend.

Find out what to do when your child takes a "homework vacation."

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

Sometimes the environment should be adjusted in order to achieve good notes from your LD child.