Relating mathematics to students' everyday lives will be a goal for me as a teacher. With the research that I have read and through my own struggle with math, I feel that children need to make connections between the real world and mathematical concepts, so that mathematics becomes relevant to them...

The article "Substance Abuse in Families" written by Rivka Greenburg, focuses on the importance of the behavioral learning abilities at home, and the educational success at school in the early developmental stage for young children. This article is organized by the use of bold subs...

This article is from a book, "Children in Crisis" which highlights various issues of adolescence, which affect their learning at school, and one of such issues is "anger." The evidence of anger has been around for as long as I have been in teaching profession, but I am noticing i...

Are the California schools and teachers making the grade in regard to illiteracy' Illiteracy is a problem of hidden proportions. For example, the San Diego Business Journal recently quoted the San Diego's Council on Literacy and pointed out that 20% of the United States population is funct...

Have you ever wondered what life at school would be like without "freedom?" In myopinion I think it would be horrid. Think about it. If we had no freedom we wouldn't be able to do the things we love most, or choose what friends we hang out with. The freedoms we have now we...