New Room by Room Summer Learning

No, this isn't a real estate ad. Your house may be big or small. It doesn't matter what it looks like. Use these activities in any room you pick. The idea is to do them, enjoy and learn from them at home.

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Early Childhood MegaSkills

Preview, Low Cost Introduction To
The MegaSkills® Road to Reading
Early Childhood Curriculum Kit $110

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Home: The Summer Learning Place

In an effort to raise test scores and build student academic skills in many schools across the nation, what are considered frills or waste of time on non-essential subjects are being cut. This includerecess. And what a bad idea this is.

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Learning more than soccer: The case for widening (not narrowing) the curriculum

In an effort to raise test scores and build student academic skills in many schools across the nation, what are considered frills or waste of time on non-essential subjects are being cut. This includerecess. And what a bad idea this is.

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MegaSkills for Early Childhood Road to Reading

Today, preschools and day care centers can get their own headstart by providing MegaSkills activities for their young children and their parents.

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NEA:National Education Association

Great Public Schools for Every Child

As a veteran classroom teacher, I learned some hard-earned lessons. But none was more important than this: The better I got to know a student's parents, the better a teacher I became.

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Paying Kids to Go to School?

Showing up in certain classes can be very rewarding for students. And it's not because of what is being taught. Parents of children in schools identified as "failing" under the No Child Left Behind Act can sign up for free "supplemental services," tutoring after school.

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Giving Our Kids Gift of Time

Home is where we do the activities that I write about. What I encourage others to do, I do myself. So every week, the little boys and I teach and learn…in the kitchen, in the yard, in the car, wherever we happen to be, using whatever we have with us.

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Wanting the Very Best for Our Children

When I ask adults about the BEST we want for children, answers from across the country
sound just like this: Self-confidence, responsibility, dependability, curiosity, eagerness to learn, independence, self-discipline, sensitivity to others, kindness, consideration, hard working.

Education's Gains and Losses

So much seems so different for our children's education these days. To get a grip on what's happening, it helps to remember where we
have been. It gives us perspective, a better sense of what we had as kids and what we want for our own children.

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The Pleasures of Learning: Linking Parent and Child with MegaSkills®

Since the 1950s, Dorothy Rich, a former teacher, felt that there was not enough focus on every child's first place of learning--the home. She held evening sessions for parents in the 1960s called "Success for Children Begins at Home," in which she led discussions and activities for parents.

High test scores are nice … but there's more

I like high student test scores, but what I don't like is what many school districts across the country are doing to try to get them. Cuts are being made in arts and music and guidance - in any area that somehow is considered non-essential for school achievement. The problem is that they are essential.