Education

“The loud and disruptive kids who are having problems get the attention they need; the quiet ones don’t,” Mazin says. “If we can identify them – and we can! -- and intervene, we can help prevent future violence and suicides.”

“You are so good at that!” you announce to the child, firmly believing that this warm praise is going to boost the child’s self-esteem and increase performance. But in study after study, and book after book, the widely accepted consensus is that complimenting your kids can cause lifelong problems and actually decrease performance, especially if you are dishing out the wrong type of compliments.

Children sometimes need some parental intervention to keep them on course and help them aim for the finish line. Following are some tips order to push for a strong end to the year for your student.

A brilliant student need not be naturally brilliant. A brilliant student is simply a student who studies brilliantly, cooperating with how his or her brain naturally works, not working against it. Every student can be a brilliant student in his own way if he learns to do these five things.

Data on the rise of children with autism would lead you to think that more Pittsburgh area parents than ever are dealing with the issues surrounding this condition, which often embeds communication problems. To help improve communications and ease stress for parents and children, Duquesne University Education Professor Dr. Rachel Robertson is interested in serving as a free resource for families. Dr. Robertson is particularly interested in working with African-American families that may not have had access to free professional advice.

Experts agree that early detection and intervention is extremely beneficial for children who are showing signs of dyslexia or other learning differences.

As the world engages in a global homework debate, there are many parents whose major concern is not public policy, but what will happen at home tonight. These parents start out with the full intention of supporting the teachers and their children’s schools. Yet, something goes wrong along the way as they and their children fall into a homework trap.

For young elementary school students, the key is to make reading fun and exciting. Here are a few simple steps parents and guardians can take to make reading fun, interesting and a life long habit.

The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (TRWIB) and the Allegheny Intermediate Unit are challenging local youth to dream big through the “Imagine! Your Future Competition.” Open to students of all school districts in Allegheny County, the essay contest is being held in conjunction with the TRWIB’s 6th annual Imagine! Career Week, April 26-May 4, 2012.

With emergencies such as flooding and power outages happening in the Pittsburgh region all of the time, we are continually reminded that disasters can strike anyone, anywhere.