Search Site:  By Susan Darst Williams Parental Involvement Ages & Stages Coaching Your Child Discipline & Safety Health, Nutrition & Fitness Homework Helpers Reading Writing Math Curriculum & Instruction Teachers & Teaching Other School Staff Testing Technology Special Learners School Management Finance & Taxation Government & Politics Preschool Private Schools Homeschooling Choice & Charters Learning on the Go Community Involvement Controversies Education Heroes Bright Ideas for Change Site Map Mini-Grants Parental Involvement Lite Parents, Kids & Books Great Books for Kids Character Education Writing Tips Inspiration Wacky Protests School Humor Home | Purpose | Ask A Question | Subscribe | Forward | Bio | Contact | Print Ages & Stages OVERVIEW       ------------------------------------------ Good Parents Grow In Wisdom       Challenge: Read a Book a Year about Learning, and Grow With Your Child CHILD DEVELOPMENT       ------------------------------------------ Learning and the Brain       Neuroscience Is Taking Some of the Mystery Out of How We Read and Understand The Value of Unstructured Time       Adults Who Take Away 'Free Play' From Early Childhood Are Setting Kids Up For Problems ED RESEARCH       ------------------------------------------ Stanford Opens Its Research Files       Breakthrough May Help Stop a Paradox: It's Hard to Learn What's Going On in the Learning Business LEARNING THEORIES       ------------------------------------------ Wise Use of 'Learning Styles'       Getting Smarter About 'Multiple Intelligences' PRESCHOOL       ------------------------------------------ Building Literacy in a Young Child       A Crucial Parenting Task During the Preschool Years Older Preschoolers: Five Tips to Grow a Good Reader       Have Fun, But Be Intentional The Preschool Key: Reading Aloud       How to Do It, and Why: 30 Minutes a Day, and Your Child Will Be Set Rhythm in Reading       Feeling Silly When You Sing and Dance and Rhyme With Your Child? You Shouldn't. Those Are Great Pre-Reading Activities! 'Talking On the Go'       Little Kids Need What Most Parents Do Best: Talk! The Dangers of Baby TV       Boob Tube, Plug-In Drug, Brain Candy: There's a Reason We Call It That Environment Shapes Intelligence       Companionship and Playthings: Two Brain-Builders Older Preschoolers: On the Brink of Reading       Don't Push Them -- But If They're Ready, Be Ready! 5 Traits of a Good Preschool       Questions to Ask To Go Beyond the Cutesy Murals and Ample Off-Street Parking Preschool Speech Problems       Responding to Minor Speech Delays Vs. Intervening Before Learning Difficulties Arise Proven Link Between Day Care and Bad Behavior       All-Day, Structured Settings Yield Aggressiveness On Down the Road: Yikes! The 'Cortisol Studies' -- Stress Hormones in Day-Care Kids       Evidence of Stress Declines When Those Same Kids Are at Home: Hmmmm What's Wrong With Starting School at 3 or 4?       Ask Our Neighbors, the Canadians Home: The Best Educational Starting Point       That Is, If You Make Your Home a Learning-Friendly Home Parental Anxiety Over Toddler Learning       What's the Rush? Every Child's Different Eight Great Preschool Activities to Do at Home       Cheap, Fast, Easy, Fun, and No-Brainers That Pay Off Educationally For Itty Bitties KINDERGARTEN       ------------------------------------------ 20 Questions for Kindergarten Readiness       Print This Out and Check Things Off in That Last Preschool Year ELEMENTARY SCHOOL       ------------------------------------------ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL       Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric: We're To the Grammar Stage Now Developmentally Appropriate Practice       DAP Is No Good For First Grade On Child-Centered Education       Not As Good as Content-Centered Education Fourth-Grade Slump       Reading Woes Come to a Head Now School-Based Day Care       It Can Be Convenient, But Avoid 'School Sour' At All Costs Sensible Policy on TV       On One Extreme, Smash It With an Ax; On the Other, Let 'Em Watch Whatever, Whenever -- Or Set Your Approach Somewhere In Between Sensible Policy on Video Games       If We Are What We Eat, What Are Violent Video Games Putting Into Your Child's Heart and Soul? Is My Child Working at Grade Level?       Cross-Check Your Child's Status With This Excellent National Curriculum Is My Child Reading at Grade Level?       Here's a Measurement Scale That Can Help You Assess Comprehension Levels MIDDLE SCHOOL       ------------------------------------------ MIDDLE SCHOOL       The Middle School Muddle Do Minds Really Go Numb in Middle School?       Nope. Another Ed School Myth Bites the Dust What About K-6 and 7-12?       School Organization: Many Ways Will Work Helping Tweens Get 'The Big Mo'       Motivation to Learn and Achieve Is Crucial As They Move Into Their Teens Middle School Dropout Prevention       Data-Driven Change Makes Sense, Pays Off HIGH SCHOOL       ------------------------------------------ HIGH SCHOOL       Finally, You're Old Enough and Smart Enough to Voice Opinions and Back Them Up -- Woo Hoo! The Carnegie Units       The Common Core of High Schools The 'Yale or Jail' Syndrome       'College For All' Is a Ridiculous Notion Making Sure High School Doesn't Waste Your Time       A Focus on Scholarship, Leadership and Service THE FUTURE       ------------------------------------------ What's 'The Next Generation' Kindergarten?       More Flexible, More Innovative, and More Parent-Driven ^ return to top ^ Individuals: read and share these features freely! Publications: please contact ShowandTellforParents.com to arrange for reprint rights to these copyrighted news stories and features. Mini-Grants  Links to Learn More   Enrichment Ideas   Nebraska Schooling   Humor Blog   Glimpses of God  Copyright © 2009 ShowandTellforParents.com Website created by Web Solutions Omaha