Ask an Expert: Testing season tips
An EdNews Parent expert offers up some helpful anecdotes and tips about how to help your child through testing season and how those scores are really used – or not.
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Parent blog: Reclaiming school conferences
In this open letter to teachers, a mom and literacy coach says she doesn’t find report cards all that useful when it comes to truly understanding whether her child is learning and thriving in school.
Ask an Expert: Help for a bored ninth-grader
A mom and literacy coach feels this dad’s pain. She too has a son who isn’t putting as much effort as he could into getting good grades. But, she also has ideas.
Ask an Expert: Boosting student’s reading level
A mom and literacy coach offers some tips to a parent concerned that her child isn’t progressing the way she should in reading. This post will put you in the driver’s seat.
Parent blog: When you hear “I hate homework!”
A mom and educator hates the daily homework battles but says, if viewed as an extension of learning vs. drudgery, homework can be OK.
Ask an Expert: Get ready to meet the teacher
A former teacher, literacy consultant and mom of four offers some key questions to ask at those back-to-school nights.
