Over the past few decades secondary schools have become larger and fewer in number. For parents, this had made choices at once more limited, but also more complicated.
Communication, contact and an end to conflict all help children accommodate this major change.
Knowing the right strategies can help parents of children with autism spectrum disorder boost their children’s communication skills.
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Specialists offer a series of tips on how parents of children with autism spectrum disorder can help their children communicate with more people and in different places.
Even working women who have partners often have to do the most work at home.
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The best-selling author of the Tomorrow series is also a teacher and school principal. His new book The Art of Growing Up has many truths on raising children, but also many contradictions.
Families can use their EITC to improve their housing.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.
When it comes to inclusive education, England has gone backwards, with more and more students placed in segregated provision or excluded from educational opportunities.
When it comes to reading, choosing the books your child reads, forcing them to read at certain times and asking them questions about their books are all big no nos.
Parenting and baby care books may be unintentionally putting babies in danger.
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Before the advent of genetic testing, definitions of paternity were primarily social and legal. Science has destabilized these older definitions, but it has not replaced them.
In 2018, the national birth rate hit a 32-year low.
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The number of births in the US is down 2% – to what the CDC calls ‘the lowest number of births in 32 years.’ This drop brings the US more in line with its peers.
Despite our differences, when it comes to babies, we communicate the same way all over the world.
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The teacher strikes that have swept the US represent a new shift in teacher activism that has led teacher unions to align with broader social and racial justice movements, an education scholar says.
It’s not all smiles and cups of tea.
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary