Here’s how to choose between Public and Private (International) Schools in Singapore

Every parent wishes for their kids to have the best education and while most people don’t agree what a great education looks like, statistics and results show that it’s the combination of creativity with engagement, focused yet practical, and data-driven matched with futuristic thinking.

5 Tips to Helping your Child Study at Home

Studying is one of the hardest habits to instill in children, but it is something crucial to their academic and professional formation. You as a parent should also study up on how to be able to help them to get and improve these qualities. The encouragement that you give to studying habits and the techniques that you will be using to do it are things you should think long and hard about. Not sure where to start? The following tips may be of much help to helping your young student:

How to Help Your Kids to Succeed with their Studies

Books, blogs and parenting websites are filled with tips on how to spend time with the kids to help with their studies. For most of us, we know this is easier said than done. With the busy lives we have, and the multiple functions we handle with respect to our different roles, it might be quite a difficult objective, trying to engage our kids in their studies.

5 Tips To Help Parents Improve Their Children’s Academic Performance

By Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Parental involvement plays a huge role in improving the child’s academic potential. This involvement goes beyond just supervising homework, it requires proper revision, listening and even probing. It is no secret that parents are important contributors to the formation and maturation of a child’s character, confidence, creativity and discipline. These virtues add to the child’s academic and individual well-being.

Parents Outraged After Students Were Forced To Remove Underwear For Poop Inspection

Via HuffPo

When officials at an elementary school in Gustine, Texas, kept finding poop on the gym floor, they decided to get to the bottom of the matter.

But their method of investigation has parents and students raising a stink.

On Monday, officials at Gustine Elementary rounded up 24 students, and divided them up by gender. Then the kids were ordered to pull down their pants far enough so educators could see if there were any tell-tale fecal stains.

This Teacher's Letter to Her Class About The 'Many Ways to Be Smart' Is A Must Read For Parents

I was one of those who did OK with tests and exams, but a few of them tripped me up and made me cry when someone else did better or took the position I wanted.

It is now at this stage in my life, that I've realized those standardized tests make it seem like we're all the same, which we're not. This teacher tries to let the kids in their class understand that too, I love it.

In case you can't read it from the image, below is the letter in full;

20 Children Dead in Connecticut School Shooting

You think you've seen the worst that can happen, and then a day like this comes and breaks your heart all over again. Just last week in our backyard (Portland in neighboring state, Oregon), a gunman killed two people and then himself at a shopping mall. Today, the violence is targeted at children, while they were in school, and all these just a few weeks, days to Christmas. What is really going on?

NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A heavily armed gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, killing 26 people including 20 children in the latest in a series of shooting rampages across the United States this year, U.S. media reported.

The gunman was dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, state police Lieutenant Paul Vance told a news conference.

Vance said there were 28 deaths in Connecticut - 20 children and seven adults from the school and another person connected to the suspect at a house in Newtown. The total included the shooter, who media said was a 24-year-old man. The New York Times reported that the gunman killed himself at the scene.