The Answer Sheet Archive: Parents
The ultimate helicopter mom -- college admissions category
A college admissions director tells a hilarious story of helicopter parenting.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 4, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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College Admissions, Parents
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admissions process, application process, college admissions, college applications, college interviews, helicopter mothers, helicopter parents, student interviews
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Legislation: Teachers should grade parents
In the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up category, a Florida (of course) state legislator is pushing legislation that would require some elementary school teachers to grade parents on how involved they are at their children's schools.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 31, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Parents, Teachers
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bill for teachers to grade parents, florida bill teachers, florida legislature, florida schools, legislation teachers parents, parents, teachers, teachers grading parents
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Parents as tigers and wimps: Cycles in child rearing and schooling
An educator explains how the media hullabaloo over Amy Chua’s 'Tiger Mom' and angry rebuttals from many parents (and grandparents) are at the root of the traditional vs. progressive cyclical conflicts that have ebbed and flowed over what reforms work best in U.S. schools.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 27, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Larry Cuban, Parents, School turnarounds/reform
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amy chua, battle hymn of the tiger mother, history of school reform, larry cuban, parenting, parenting techniques, school reform, tiger mom, tiger mother
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How to talk to kids about violence
High-profile acts of violence can scare and confuse children. Here is advice on how to talk with them about the Arizona shooting rampage.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 12, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Parents
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arizona shooting, gabby giffords, gabrielle giffords, jared lee loughner, loughner, school psychologists, talking to kids about violence, tucson shootings
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Willingham: When teachers speak unwelcome truths about your child
Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about why parents should listen to their child's teachers -- especially when they don't like what they hear.
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Valerie Strauss
| December 20, 2010; 10:30 AM ET |
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Daniel Willingham, Guest Bloggers, Parents, Teachers
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daniel willingham, parents, report cards, teachers
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Will firing 5-10 percent of teachers make us Finland?
Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates like to say that our public schools would become high-performing if we only fired the bottom 5-10 percent of teachers. Here's an examination of that notion.
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Valerie Strauss
| December 18, 2010; 12:00 PM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Matthew Di Carlo, Parents, Research
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assessing teachers, bill gates, eric hanushek, evaluating teachers, finland, michelle rhee, shankar blog, teachers
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