Facing down competition from charters and choice, the Grand Rapids Public Schools are responding with new initiatives and higher student achievement.

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Real estate agents, knowingly or not, can sway families' opinions on schools. So, school officials in Pasadena, Calif., decided to ask agents to help build a better district image.

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The education secretary will allow competition for servicing student loans; new concerns over affirmative action; Public Service Loan Forgiveness in question, and more in our weekly roundup.

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1. General speech and language assessments of children under 3 years of age.
2. Assessments of toddlers with suspected motor speech disorders 
3. Assessments ofchildren ~16-18 months of age
4. Assessments of Social Pragmatic Abilities of Children Under 3

Today I’d like to talk about the assessment of feeding abilities of children u...

A one-of-a-kind museum that honors some of the nation's most accomplished teachers has given Emporia Kansas the title of "Teacher Town USA."

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My first encounters with kids with ADHD were not as a parent but as a music teacher. When I taught my first private guitar lesson at age 18, most of my students were in middle or high school. I was closer in age to my students than I was to their parents, and so I related and empathized when they told me about school.

One of my...

One of the biggest challenges that parents of a child with ADHD face is managing and changing disruptive or inappropriate behaviors at home and in school. The best way to meet that challenge is through a behavioral parent training program (BPT), a well-studied and well-established first-line treatment plan for children with...

Despite the many differences among children and adults with ADHD, there is one similarity shared by virtually all of them. Although they have considerable chronic difficulty in getting organized and getting started on many tasks, focusing their attention, sustaining their efforts, and utilizing their short-term working memory,...

In the past several years, due to an influx of adolescent students with language and learning difficulties on my caseload, I have begun to research in depth aspects of adolescent language development, assessment, and intervention.

While a number of standardized assessments are available to test various components...

Stephanie Berger always knew that her granddaughter struggled with inattention and hyperactivity, but she couldn’t get a diagnosis until Nadia was nine.

“When she was four, I went to our pediatrician and told him she was having trouble,” Berger said. “He’s the first one who said it ‘could...

The Advanced Placement program has scored a win for diversity with the help of Silicon Valley.

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