IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

July 27th, 2020
IEP Law

IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman joins her book on Grading, Reporting, Graduating… and the law as must-haves for your school’s special education library. Both are quick reads and provide educators and parents with all the need to know. Principals should put a few copies in the faculty room and parent support groups should have some for parents to borrow.

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The Best Tips for Staying Focused While Studying From Home by Craig Middleton

July 25th, 2020

Studying from home by Craig Middleton
The Best Tips for Staying Focused While Studying From Home by Craig Middleton offers sound advice for anyone who has to study at home. Parents can use this advice to help their children study more effectively as can adults who are going back to school to facilitate a possible career change. Thanks, Craig.

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Five Ways You May Be Pushing Your Teenager Away by Ella Woodward

July 22nd, 2020

Talk to Teen
Five Ways You May Be Pushing Your Teenager Away
by Ella Woodward offers sound advice for any parent. Parenting a teen can be tricky and no one is perfect, but this will help you focus on the things that can get in the way.

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Grading, Reporting, Graduating…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

July 18th, 2020
Grading, Reporting

Grading, Reporting, Graduating…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman is a quick read that can help educators and parents learn about what the law requires so that parents can get their children what they deserve and so educators can obey the law and stay out of trouble as they provide their students with the services they are entitled to. Every school should have several copies.

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Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein

July 11th, 2020
Boys and Sex

Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein finishes what she started with Girls and Sex, which is also summarized here. Once again she has conducted many interviews with young men and experts in many fields to paint a picture of how the same social forces that impact girls impact boys. Like her book on girls, all parents, boys, and girls should read my summaries and then get the books.

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