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Reasons That Supporting The School Gives Your Child An Advantage

Children catch on fast, especially to negative concepts such as playing one parent against the other. The key is that this behavior is learned, and it is reinforced when parents contradict one another in child-rearing matters in front of the child. This "divide and conquer" strategy can all too easily transfer to the classroom. If parents discuss school issues in front of their children, taking sides before consulting with the classroom teacher, trouble starts…

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What are signs of anxiety in children?

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All children experience anxiety. Anxiety in children is expected and normal at specific times in development. For example, from approximately seven months of age through the preschool years, healthy youngsters may show intense distress, or anxiety, at times of separation from their parents or other persons with whom they are close. Young children may have short-lived fears-such as fear of the dark, storms, animals, or strangers. However, when anxieties become severe and begin to interfere with the daily activities of childhood-such as separating from parents or attending school and making friends-parents should consider seeking the evaluation and advice of a child and adolescent psychiatrist.

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Achievement Gap

n. -- The discrepancy in achievement between or among different groups of students--for example, African-American, white, Latino, low socio-economic, high socio-economic, etc.--as measured by standardized achievement tests, grades, and other forms of assessment.

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