12-24-14: What does it take to ensure that children read by third grade? “Read to them,” said the hair stylist mom. Don’t cut back on that. Holidays are the perfect time to renew the habit if it has lapsed.

12-19-14: Time to say goodbye to fish sandwiches and rotini with meat sauce until Jan. 5. Stay healthy, dear children. Run from the TV and curl up with a blanket and a book. Happy Holidays!

12-18-14: We all entered primary school as cut-ups and left it as social beings. What part of a virtual K-12 schoolhouse prepares our children to live and work with one another?

12-10-14: The LIFT project was sold as a feeder-area system, where focused work with elementary students would yield big gains later at West Charlotte High. The Year 2 consultant’s report, however, notes that many children at LIFT elementaries and middle schools don’t end up at WCHS. In fact, 89% of Allenbrook’s 2012-13 rising sixth-graders went […]

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