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• Kindergarten: Homework Or Not?
  Is your kindergartener bringing home a folder full of photocopied worksheets for homework each night? Do you struggle with him each day to finish and feel like you're fighting an uphill battle? Many education experts are now questioning the appropriateness of homework for our youngest students.
• A Tried and True Method for Practicing Spelling Words
  This Look, Say, Cover, Write spelling method is one frequently used in classrooms around the country. Read more about this quick and easy way to help your child with spelling practice and discover its many other possible applications!
• Teacher-Approved Online Dictionaries for Kids
  Spelling can be challenging for many young students as well as adults who have seen their spelling skills dwindling in the aftermath of social media restrictions to 140 characters per entry. The creative shorthand used in every day smartphone texting makes correctly spelled words often seem odd.
• Help Children with ADHD Complete Their Homework in 5 Quick Steps
  Homework struggles, exhausted parents, and worn out children; sound like your home? If you have a child with ADHD they may need some extra help learning to self-manage homework duties. These five quick steps lead to success for these kids and peace for the home.
• Get the Most from Your Study Time by Utilizing the Correct Learning Style
  Do you know what type of learner you are? Do you understand school material better when you hear it, or when you read it? What about when you watch a video, or utilize an interactive website? Understanding a little bit about how you learn will help you study smarter, not longer.
• Are Our Kids Really on a Race to Nowhere?
  Recently, filmmakers from Lafayette, California created a film called "The Race to Nowhere." This film chronicles the pressures students face in what the filmmakers deem is an "achievement culture." I'm here to say that this is nothing new, and I grew up in Lafayette, I know that pressure too well.
• Math Homework Activities: Using The Number Line
  Parents can help their elementary school students learn to add and subtract on a math/number line by planning home activities. Rather than working with a traditional number line written on paper, parents can get creative with a number line race car game, a vertical number line, and a walking line.
• Improve Your Study Skills with Mnemonic Devices
  You need some study strategies to get prepared for the math test on Monday and you need them now. Mnemonic devices can provide those strategies in helping you remember those math concepts and ace that exam and others. In this article, you will learn how to increase your study skills using mnemonics.
• The Cornell Note-Taking System: Taking Notes From Boring to Active
  This article is going to tell you all about how to take Cornell notes. This method, good for high school, college and post graduate, will help you take notes that are much more inclined to stay in your long term memory, encourage better classroom participation, and are great with study groups.