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1910 is good enough
Testing madness can catch parents unawares and very early in their student’s school years. Denise Pope, a Stanford University professor and co-founder of Challenge Success, advocates for helping students achieve success without the current pressures of long homework hours and … Continue reading
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Race to Nowhere
The film “Race to Nowhere,” zooms in on a different perspective of our educational system. Instead of probing how low-income families and under-represented students can gain access to superior academic environments, this film examines the trade-offs for our national obsession … Continue reading
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Square peg students
Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of parenting a student is watching your child struggle to fit in. A bad social fit is painful for both students and parents, but a bad educational fit is excruciating. Square pegs don’t … Continue reading
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A dad’s changing view of educational opportunities
If no other family members have attended college, higher education may be perceived as unattainable. For parents who completed college, a bachelor’s degree often becomes the minimum level of higher education they envision for their children. In this 2-minute chapter … Continue reading
Parental time investment in homework
How involved are parents in their children’s homework? It depends on the age of the child and the family’s own attitudes. Grandparents of today’s school-age children were often minimally involved in their child’s homework. Those children, today’s parents of school-age … Continue reading
Hispanics and education: it’s all in the family
Forecasting educational trends for Texas’ largest minority is difficult because Hispanic culture is actually a loosely bound collection of the cultures of many independent countries sharing a similar language. In this 5-minute audio podcast, three generations of Latino men talk … Continue reading
The village that abandoned its children
The origins of the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” remain under debate, but the sentiment describes how children are dependent on a much wider range of adults and infrastructure than is available within their immediate family. … Continue reading
Test Less
If your student easily passed his or her TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) tests last spring, shouldn’t s/he be eligible to skip the same TAKS tests this year? Today’s Off the Kuff blog posting describes an exciting proposal … Continue reading
Street corner punishment for low grades
Black and Married with Kids (BMWK) has some very good articles about parenting, but when I saw the title of a post about a mom making her kid stand on the street corner as punishment for bad grades, I didn’t … Continue reading
Learn to take risks, even if you quit later
Long before I considered “the Amy Chua question: are we raising quitters,” the parenting regret that I gnawed on most was not making my children stick to something for a very long time. I wish my kids had found their … Continue reading
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