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64Is Your Child an 'Underachiever'?
Is Your Child An Underachiever? Every parent wants and hopes hard that his/her child brings home report cards with flying colors. Yet, some parents may see their hopes shatter. Frustrated parents are...
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62New Study is Out--Pig Faces are a Strong Predictor of Failure
And now for a completely up-front and serious article on education... A new study published this week in the Journal of Studies shows a strong correlation between academic failure and time spent in class...
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60Name Games and Trading Places
In a sixth grade class of bright, attentive children of diverse personality and race, I mentally deliberated the credibility of a pale blonde girl with a name tag reading: "Maria Sanchez-Garcia". ...
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59Teaching math: Girl Scouts and Pizza
The miniature Girl Scout delivering cookies to my front door informed me that my total was twelve dollars. I recognized her as a first grader. I had been a sub teacher a few times in her class. I couldn't...
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72My child didn't pass the FCAT, now what?
A friend of mine came to me about two weeks before the end of the school year in a panic. Her son, a third grader at a local public school, did not pass the FCAT reading test. She was devastated. Now what?...
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62Classic books for 4th and 5th graders by Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls, is the only children's book I know that was completely burned before publication because of embarrassment by its author-after he'd spent nearly 20 years writing it!...
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56Caldecott Award winning children's books by David Wiesner
Flying frogs, fallen trees, clouds... all wonderful backdrops for wonderful wordless books illustrated by the masterful David Wiesner. A child's imagination can connect with his books with no problem at all...
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