School Performance

Find tips on how to deal with a teacher who may be verbally abusing her class.

There are many reasons why good students do poorly on standardized tests.

It's quite normal for a bad experience to have effects on classroom rules, but one needs to be rational about the actual risks faced.

The shaming approach will never inspire a child to greater academic achievement.

Read an expert's opinion on retaining children for non-academic reasons.

What can you do when your spouse makes unrealistic study and homework rules for the kids?

A mother wants to know what she can do to get her son motivated.

Parents who make unrealistic demands of their kids risk seeing their kids' mental, emotional and physical well-being severely compromised.

Discovering why your child doesn't care about school is the first step in helping him succeed.

Detect why a fourth-grader might give up on schoolwork.

Learn some technique to help children with reading and math trouble.

Learn how to help your child prepare for standardized tests.

Retention is always a last resort, especially for students with learning disabilities.

What can parents do when their daughter stops focusing on her high-school academics because they are "not relevant" to her chosen career of musical theater?

A mother seeks help for her teen with LD, who has not been helped in resource room and is now refusing to go to school.

A six-year-old first grader is not about to choose a life of purposeful underachievement!

How close should high-school teachers get to their students?

Learn how to help your child do well on standardized tests.