#best advice for education
Parents play a crucial role in their children’s education, serving as their first teachers and lifelong champions.
This category explores the partnership between parents and educators in supporting children’s learning and development.
Articles in this category cover a range of topics, including fostering a supportive home environment for learning, promoting parental involvement in education, and nurturing critical thinking skills in children.
Whether you’re a parent looking for guidance on how to support your child’s education or an educator seeking to strengthen the home-school partnership, our articles aim to provide practical tips and insights to help families navigate the educational journey together.
You step inside a school where learning never stops. No long breaks, no long gaps, only a rhythm of study, practice, feedback, and rest that repeats all year. This is what a nonstop school looks like from the inside. Inside the school that never takes a break: how nonstop learning works In this type of …
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West Virginia faces a serious tension between homeschooling, chronic absenteeism, and weak school attendance. Nearly three-quarters of West Virginia students switching to homeschooling leave public schools already chronically absent, which raises hard questions about education policy, support for families, and student follow-up. Chronic absenteeism and homeschooling in West Virginia Recent state data show that more …
The Oakland school board sits at the center of your child’s daily school experience. When the board fails, your kids pay the price in unfinished homework, canceled programs, and broken trust. Oakland school board failures and the impact on kids The Oakland school board oversees an underperforming district where only about one in three students …
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Newsom’s Universal Preschool Victory reshaped early learning in California. The big question now is the price child care providers and families pay to keep this new system working. Newsom’s Universal Preschool Victory and California’s Big Education Shift When Governor Newsom entered office, he set a clear goal: make Universal Preschool a reality for California families. …
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A regional museum launch of a new initiative to support children’s educational programs shows how community events shape real learning. The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium used its annual gala to grow outreach, bring science alive, and reach more schools that struggle with access. Museum launch initiative to support children’s education programs The recent …
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Many students feel schools are designed for bullies, not for their safety or learning. When bullying shapes the school environment, silent students, anxious teens, and isolated children pay the price. Schools designed for bullies: how school safety fails When rules look strict on paper but weak in practice, bullying spreads fast. A school might talk …
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Home education raises many questions for parents who want the best learning at home for their child. You hear strong opinions, half-truths, and fear-based stories. Here you get clear myth debunking and simple homeschooling facts so you judge home education on evidence, not on noise. Home education myths debunked with real life examples Many education …
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Susie Dent’s expert strategies to expand and enrich your child’s vocabulary focus on daily habits you control at home. When you use simple reading strategies, rich conversations, and playful word games, your child’s vocabulary and overall child development move forward together. Susie Dent’s vocabulary strategies for strong child development Susie Dent warns that many children …
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Home-schooled children are joining more social learning sessions, and this change shapes how families think about modern education. These new hubs mix home learning with rich peer interaction and structured support for child development. Rise in home-schooled children and social learning sessions Across England, local data and national reports show a clear rise in home-schooled …
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Irv Rhodes built his life around one idea: every child deserves to feel safe, respected and ready to learn. His story in Amherst shows how one advocate for children’s education shapes schools, policy and community life over decades. Irv Rhodes and children’s education in Amherst Irv Rhodes arrived in Amherst in the 1970s with deep …
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