Today we welcome back blogger Renée Jordan, who last wrote for us in 2016. We are delighted to have her contributing to our blog once again....

Two of our favorite organizations - The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Understood - have teamed up to create a tool for parents ...

New York City Public Schools are holding parent-teacher conferences starting this week. Elementary school conferences begin this coming Wedn...

Smartphones have revolutionized the world, putting an unprecedented wealth of resources at users’ fingertips. But many parents worry that ...

It's not uncommon for parents to tell us about issues with getting their child services or accommodations early in the school year. The ...

We get lots of questions from families about how they can learn about topics relating to schools, special education, advocacy, and more. Som...

Parents frequently ask us about having their school district pay for an independent educational evaluation - an IEE - such as those we provi...

This June marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots , the uprising at a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, that marke...

A new series of books, Having Fun with Music - The Young Child's Piano Book  is a wonderful and creative way to introduce young childre...

Parents sometimes ask how they can learn about special education law, to help them advocate for their own child or to help other parents who...

A short piece in Ed ., the always interesting magazine published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) , led us to a new tool...

In  an excellent recent article in Education Week ,  elementary school teacher Emily Galle-From discussed the enjoyment she got from teachi...

The Earth Day Network grew out of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 and now, almost 50 years later, works with more than 50,000 partne...

There are some "go to" resources that we turn to time and again for information about schools and other subjects. You may already ...

If you are a parent trying to better understand the issues involved in in your child's learning challenges, an advocate or professional ...

Usually, when we write about a resource document, we carefully set forth what it says and offer guidance to the readers of our blog to help ...

A new "issue brief" from Penn State University (with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) notes that elementary age s...

Parents of children with learning and other challenges often wonder if environmental factors could have caused or been a factor in their chi...

There is no shortage of articles out there - in newspapers, magazines, parenting books, and empirical journals - that extol the virtues of h...

Exactly 55 years ago today, I sat in front of a black and white television set in my parents' basement and listened to John F. Kennedy a...