Education

The Case Against College
Success Without College: Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now-and May Not Have to Go At All
by Linda Lee
Here is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning's sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture

The Greatest Gift We Can Give To Our Children
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
Some people believe the most important thing to give a child is an excellent education. More important than giving a child a proper formal education is to foster the child's self-esteem. This is a key ingredient for them to develop a sense of self-love

Organization 101: Teaching Your Child How to Get His Act Together
Middle School Years: Achieving the Best Education for Your Child, Grades 5-8
by Michele A. Hernandez
Before setting out to design a book that would be helpful for both parents and students, I sent out a survey to roughly 650 parents at the private school where I work. I asked them a series of questions about education: what skills they felt their childre

Leaving Books in School, Missing School, The Locker
Middle School Years: Achieving the Best Education for Your Child, Grades 5-8
by Michele A. Hernandez
There are ways to reduce the risk of your children leaving books in school. One extreme measure is to buy an extra copy of the heaviest, bulkiest textbooks to keep at home; yet this is costly and many public schools don't even have enough to go around in

Homework Notebook
Middle School Years: Achieving the Best Education for Your Child, Grades 5-8
by Michele A. Hernandez
There is one item so valuable that I will discuss it here in greater detail than I do in Appendix B, and that is the homework notebook. There is no general agreement as to whether the homework notebook should be a little tiny notepad

Teacher-Learner Relationships: The Missing Link
Teacher Effectiveness Training: The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages
by Dr. Thomas Gordon
Teaching is a universal pursuit-everybody does it. Parents teach their children, employers teach their employees, coaches teach their players, wives teach their husbands (and vice versa), and, of course, professional teachers teach their students.

Home: The Ideal School
Homeschooling for Success: How Parents Can Create a Superior Education for Their Chil
by Rebecca Kochenderfer, Elizabeth Kanna
Homeschooling is not new. It is the way this country has educated its children for all but the last 150 years. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as many as two million children in the United States are learning at home.

What Are You Teaching Your Children?
by Jan Tincher
What are you doing in front of your children? Kids mimic their parents, even if they don't understand what is going on. Do you get angry? What do you do when you are angry? Do you let that anger show, regardless of the consequences?

The Completion of the Human Being
Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
by Paula Polk Lillard, Lynn Lillard Jessen
Before we begin the chapters of practical detail that form the body of this book, it is important to visit two more areas of thought about the formation of human beings. If we are going to help the human infant in the monumental task of self-completion

Defining Emotional Safety
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents
by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
A 1992 district-wide survey of over sixty-five thousand students in Houston showed that 48 percent either disagreed or strongly disagreed with the following statement: The school is a safe place. Another 12 percent did not know.

High School Dropouts
Success Without College: Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now-and May Not Have to Go At All
by Linda Lee
Almost half a million teenagers drop out of high school every year, according to the United States Department of Education. In New York City, half of the entering freshmen don't graduate from high school.

Every Child Deserves to Feel Successful!

Don believes that the symptoms of ADD seemed to be caused by a loss of control of the processing mind. Imagine you are watching a multiple slide show where three to five projectors are projecting images on a screen. Now imagine having to report on what

Penguins 7, Jets 0
Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
by Lawrence Goldstone, Ph.D., Nancy Goldstone
The day we picked to hold our first parent-child book group at our local public library was Sunday, January 10, 1999. Like everything else about the book group, this date and the time-3:30 in the afternoon-had been carefully chosen after months

Crap Education
by Peta Heskell
The damage it causes us. Why do so many people suffer from lack of self confidence. What stops so many of us living our dreams. Why are so many people flocking to personal growth courses to find themselves? What went wrong and how can we right it?

Joy of Learning

As a former educator and school counselor, I witnessed first hand the challenges of youngsters with attention deficit. Learning the success strategies of Dr. Don Blackerby, author of Rediscover The Joy of Learning, has given me new insight in the learning

Kids' Brains Must Be Different ...
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
'Kids' brains must be different these days,' I remarked half jokingly as I graded student essays in the faculty room late one afternoon. 'If I didn't think it was impossible, I would agree with you,' chimed in a colleague who had experienced

Dimensions of a Very Big Picture
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents
by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
Something is terribly wrong with our schools. How did a place that should be a sanctuary for kids becomes a source of fear and intimidation? What has happened? In Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, Jane Bluestein offers a plan to return schools to havens

Going on Tilt
The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life
by Laura S. Kastner, Ph.D., Jennifer Wyatt, Ph.D.
During a two-year period beginning with the senior year of high school, most parents find themselves confounded by unanticipated challenges. 'Why are my daughter and I fighting like cats and dogs now that she's about to leave?' a mother might ask.

Ghosts in the Classroom
The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Every time parents and teachers encounter one another in the classroom, their conversations are shaped by their own autobiographi- cal stories and by the broader cultural and historical narratives that inform their identities, their values

Solving the College Conundrum
Paying for Your Child's College Education
by Marguerite Smith
As a parent, you may be a little scared, and you're probably more than a little confused. Perhaps you have a newborn napping in her crib or a high school sophomore wrestling with math homework at the kitchen table or both.