Are part time student jobs a good thing?

Do teens work too hard?

Share Since my oldest daughter turned 16 this year, my wife Shirley and I have been nagging her to get a part time job. We assume that she should be making some of her own money. After all, both my wife and I worked when we were her age and many kids her age have [...]

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Aptitude tests: are they accurate?

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Share For many years the school system has relied on aptitude tests to tell your child what they can reasonably expect to do with their life.  And while a standardized questionnaire to determine what your child is suited for may help them to narrow down the wide field of choices when it comes to pursuing [...]

Sleep Takes Backseat to Teen Media Use, Study Finds

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Share Tweens and teens may be spending more time interacting with entertainment media than they do sleeping, a new study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found. The report, Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18-year-olds, found 8-18 year-olds spend an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes a day using [...]

Using the Internet and Cell Phones to Cheat

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Share Cheating in school is probably as old as school itself but the means by which students can – and do – cheat today have changed dramatically through the years. Or perhaps the basic means of cheating has stayed the same, but the tools have changed. Now if students want to share a copy of [...]

Classroom Technology Isn't About Technology

Share In this digital age it’s easy to think about the technology that surrounds us everyday and think that we should have that technology in our classrooms, but the reality is that it isn’t about the technology we have in the classroom, but having the best tools to teach and learn. As a really simplified [...]

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