K-12 Articles
A Cheat Sheet on Cheating
Senior projects are coming due and finals are coming up. Spring has sprung, and with spring comes Spring Fever and Senioritis and skipped classes and missing assignments. There is one thing, however, that can turn those dropping grades around-finals. For...Read More
Adolescents, Sleep and Learning
Recently, adolescent's sleep habits have been in the news. Research has shown that adolescents need more sleep now then children and parents are worried. Teenagers especially seem to need more sleep. Are they really tired when you can't budge them out...Read More
All about Backpacks
Your child riffles through his backpack to find homework assignments, his MP3 player, lunch money and his Game Boy games. He shoves it into the bottom of his locker, shoves it under the seat on the school bus and tosses it in a corner of his room when...Read More
Asperger Syndrome: A Developmental Disorder on the Autism Spectrum
Asperger Syndrome, also known as Pervasive Developmental Disorder is on the high functioning end of the autism spectrum. It was identified by Dr. Hans Asperger, a physician from Vienna in 1944. He published papers that identified certain patterns of behavior...Read More
Assisting Students to Overcome Test Anxiety
Every human copes with anxiety at one time or another. It is a basic emotion that we feel when something is perceived as a threat. Anxiety is a valuable tool, which humans use to avoid danger. However, anxiety can be a negative emotion when taken to extremes....Read More
Attend Your Teen's Holiday Parties
Christmas and New Years are coming, and with them Christmas and New Years Eve parties. At many of these parties, alcohol flows freely. I don't know anyone who doesn't drive just a little more defensively on New Years Eve, or who avoid driving that night...Read More
Beating the Summer Slump
"The Summer Slump", teachers call it. It happens every year. It makes its way into lesson plans and even into the federal No Child Left Behind Act. It affected us, our parents, our grandparents, and now our children. The beginning of each school year...Read More
Break The Cycle: Teen Dating Violence and Prevention Week
February 5 through 9 was "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week". Unfortunately, it went unnoticed throughout most of the country. However, teen dating violence is on the rise, and for the most part going unreported. Teens from...Read More
Breakfast, Kids and Learning
For generations parents have been telling their kids that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and believe it or not, it's true. Children go to bed early. When they wake up the next morning, they've fasted for approximately ten hours. A nutritional...Read More
Bullies...What are They Good For?
Bullies have been around since the beginning of time. We had to deal with bullies, and our parents had their own. There have always been bullies and their prey. Bullying is also not confined to boys. Girls are getting more and more violent. Where female...Read More
Bullycide: What is It and How Can It be Prevented?
Disclaimer: This article expresses my opinion that has been formed by personal experience and research. It is not necessarily the opinion of LocalSchoolDirectory.com We're all familiar with the term suicide, but not many of us have heard the term bullycide....Read More
Cell Phones... The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread or the Worst Invention in the World?
Cell phones are wonderful, the best things humans have ever invented! They help us keep in touch with work, our family, and friends. Hand-held phones have so many uses now-cameras, video cameras, mp3 players, pretty soon, they'll even be coming with...Read More
Changing Schools Isn't Easy: Tips for a Successful Transition
It isn't easy for students to make the transition into a new school, especially if they have grown-up in a close knit community. Changing schools can be very stressful, fill them with anxiety and, depending on their age, be downright frightening. Students...Read More
Choosing a Summer Camp for your Child
Are you planning to send your child to summer camp this year? If so, have you taken his needs into consideration? Does your child have health issues or special needs? Will you send him to day camp or a camp where he'll stay overnight for an entire week?...Read More
Cut the Credit and Save YOU Some Money
Today's society glorifies a get-it-now mentality. Children learn this early. You probably noticed this when you were at the grocery store with your toddler. She wanted a candy bar or a special toy and surprised you when she told you to write a check...Read More
Cutting Class
Depression is a very real problem for today's youth. When your spirit doesn't feel good, a lot of teens do what they can to make their body feel the same. Some students pick fights. Some students overeat. Some students take drugs or alcohol or get...Read More
Democracy in Action
There is still over a year until the general election, but the election cycle has been in full swing for almost a year now. With such a long election season, it's easy to get overloaded and it's so easy to just fast forward through the boring election...Read More
Does Your Child's Teacher Make a Difference
School improvement is always in the news. Teachers demand smaller class sizes. The government calls for standardized testing. Researches want changes in curriculum and parents are confused as to what will enhance their child's learning abilities. In...Read More
Educators and Childhood Obesity
Obesity in childhood is rising to epidemic proportions in America and educators should be concerned. The statistics of obesity in children are alarming. Using the 95 percentile and higher of body mass, the following statistics have been gathered: Statistics...Read More
Everyone Loves Going to the Doctor and Dentist
Going to the doctor or dentist can be traumatic for children of all ages. Many adults do not always like going to their regular checkups, and we don't need to get shots! But health and dental checkups are extremely important for students-especially...Read More
Exciting School Lunch Ideas
Earlier this week I had reason to drop by my grandsons' school at lunch time. While waiting for the boys outside the office, I was appalled to see several students throw their lunches into the trash can. Several questions ran through my mind. What would...Read More
Feeling Good in Your Own Skin
Body image is a very touchy issue with today's kids. Since the 1950s, when Barbie was first released, the picture of the "ideal woman" has been almost impossible to attain. With her proportions, if Barbie was a real woman, she would be over 6 feet tall,...Read More
Grammar...not just extended family anymore!
Can I talk to y'all abit about grammar? Right grammar and punctuations got to be some of the mostest important parts of English. They is also some of the mostest misunderstood parts of the language-and there not practiced at home-recent survey's showed...Read More
Halloween Safety Tips
Ghosts and witches sit beside mistletoe and tinsel on store shelves. Orange and black deck the halls of your student's school. Halloween (now the official start of the Christmas season-I guess we forgot about Thanksgiving) has been a day (or night) notorious...Read More
Help Your Child Achieve Success in Middle School
Middle school is for children between the ages of 10 and 14 years. At this time children begin to change emotionally and intellectually. They look at the world in a different light and the way they feel, learn and interact with peers and figures of authority...Read More
Help Your High School Student Create an Impressive Resume
Time has flown. Your teen is in high school and has demonstrated an interest in obtaining a part time job. Be sure to assist your teen by giving tips and tricks that will make his resume stand out from others that are submitted. With summer just around...Read More
Helping Young Children with Printing and Cursive Writing
Is your child experiencing difficulty printing or writing? Is he unable to print or write legibly, even though both you and his teacher have given him extra help and encouragement? There are many young children who have difficulty forming letters,...Read More
Helping Your Child Leave the Nest
It's all come down to this: Eighteen years of good times and bad, and now your baby bird is ready to leave the nest. You have one last thing you need to do before your little bird stretches his or her wings and starts flying. For some parents, preparation...Read More
Helping your Learning Disabled Child
Thousands of children in America struggle to learn on a daily basis. Many of them have invisible disabilities. In fact, five to eight percent of the population has learning disabilities that range from mild to extremely severe. It is the responsibility...Read More
Homework Helps
School has started throughout the country and is well into the first month-some schools are starting on their second. With school comes homework-the bane of most students' school existence. However, studies have shown that students who do homework...Read More
Homework Tips: Taking the Work out of Homework
Kids hate homework. It seems that almost every night of the week they are overloaded with assignments and projects. Teachers give children homework to ensure all class work is completed and so they are better able to evaluate how much classroom work your...Read More
How to Get the Best Supplies for Your Money
School supply lists can seem unending, and the price can add up very quickly. But do we really need to get everything on the list right away? When should we start looking for school supplies, such as filler paper, pencils, and binders? How can we send...Read More
Hurt: A book Report
My last book report was over 15 years ago, and I'm a bit rusty, but here goes (Don't forget: book reports are full of personal opinion, and the opinions herein may or may not reflect those of the administration of localschooldirectory.com). "Hurt:...Read More
Idle Hands
The worst affliction affecting our kids today is not teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol, or Internet predators. No. In fact, all those dangers can be traced to-in most cases-a common root. Boredom. The success of websites like MySpace and YouTube are...Read More
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K-12 Articles
- Making Sense of No Child Left Behind
- The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has met with mixed results and mixed feelings....
- Special Needs Education: Your Child, Your Rights
- Many children today have special needs that make it difficult for them to learn....
- Summer Reading
- In 1998, a book was published in the US that turned a hatred of reading to love....
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