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Teen’s Perspective on Starting the New Year Right
Now everyone has their own New Year’s resolutions, but a great one is to focus on your studies. Set a reasonable goal, like doing better in your classes than you did last semester, even if your first...
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What Teens Aren’t Learning, What Parents Can Do
In 2012, a Gallup Poll found that “For too many American students, high school is a time of disengagement that fails to put them on a path to college and career success.” In numerical terms, while...
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The End is Near
Yes, you read that right. The end is near, the end of school that is. For my fellow AP seniors, we are essentially already done. AP testing has finished for me, a few of you may have one or two...
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3 Summer School-Free Ways Teens Can Learn in Summer
The Summer Slide, which sounds like it should be something fun, is actually a worrying phenomenon — as the U.S. Department of Education says, “Without learning opportunities, students – especially...
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Preparing for College
Preparing to go back to school when you’re going to college is far different that high school. I learned that rather quickly this summer. Of course you have to pack up and move everything, and you...
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Parent-Teacher Conferences: Basic Guidelines
As November begins, many students are finishing the first quarter of the school year. With this demarcation usually comes parent-teacher conferences. As a parent and a former teacher, I have to admit...
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Parent-Teacher Conferences: Work as a Team
It’s the day of parent-teacher conferences. You arrive a few minutes early and are waiting in the hallway for your turn. You enter the room calm and ready to chat. (If you didn’t do both of these...
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Home Learning for Teens: Are You Both Ready?
We parents tend to think of home learning as something for elementary aged kids — once they become teens, we figure, they’ll need, and probably want, the experience of full-time high school. Yet there...
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Teen’s Perspective on Summer Work
My personal opinion on summer work is that we shouldn’t have it, but alas, we do. I think that it is unfair for teachers to give us work to do over the summer while they don’t do anything, but we do,...
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Teen’s Perspective on Back to School Behavior
School is here, but no one wants to go. It seems to be this way every year. Of course, I am eager to go back; I start my senior year, but I am also dreading it. The thought of being a senior is...
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