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New York City’s Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents’ Guide


New York City has some of the best and worst public schools in America and as well as the nation’s largest system of choice. As a result, New York City parents are often forced to shop for elementary schools the way parents elsewhere shop for colleges. Clara Hemphill has written a guide that provides parents with everything they need to find a good school in their neighborhood or to apply to the dozens of alternative schools that accept children from outside their i… More >>

New York City’s Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents’ Guide

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New York City’s Best Public Middle Schools: A Parents’ Guide


A completely revised new edition of Clara Hemphill’s New York City’s Best Public Middle Schools.

Reflecting recent changes brought about by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reorganization of New York City’s public school system, this Third Edition features all new reviews of 74 of the city’s best public middle schools. Providing everything parents need to know in choosing a middle school that is just right for their child, New York City’s Best Public Middle Schools… More >>

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The Educated Child: A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade


The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it. Combining the goals that William Bennett enumerated as Secretary of Education, key excerpts from E. D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Sequence, and the latest research, it sets forth clear curricula and specific objectives for children from kindergarten through the eighth grade, including: What children should be studying and the kind of work they… More >>

The Educated Child: A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade

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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning

  • ISBN13: 9781890627843
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No .


(2009 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA): Honors Award)Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose things, or have a room that looks like a dump! The good news is that parents can do a lot to support and train their children to man… More >>

Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning

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Letting Go : A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College Years

  • ISBN13: 9780061665738
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No .


For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children’s college years—from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, this indispensable book has been updated and revised, offering even more compassionate, pra… More >>

Letting Go : A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College Years

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