Your child comes home with her or his report card, and you are surprised to see a low score on the reading section.

It is that time of year again – Holiday Time! For me, the end of the year and beginning of a new year is time to reflect upon what has been and plan for what might be. I am not a great believer in New Year’s resolutions, per se. I think you need more of a plan and then you need to implement the plan to have success in the coming year.

As mentioned in part one, if you are an adult student, you can advocate for yourself and make many of the following changes for yourself.

If you are an adult student, you can advocate for yourself and make many of the following changes for yourself. I am also writing to parents of children with ADD or ADHD, and they may need to be more involved to help make the changes both at home and at school.

Yes, I know. I am not supposed to be so blunt. Still, I believe the statement is true.

Something to keep in mind when writing dialogue is to use a new paragraph each time the speaker changes. Dialogue is basically writing down a conversation.

You might have heard of these terms before; however, many people have forgotten or never fully understood the meaning or the use.

Just help me get through the course! I hear this more often than I would like. It isn’t that I don’t want to help – I do. However, just “getting through” a course isn’t the true goal of education.

Sometimes students (and others) get trapped in process. They spend a lot of time researching, talking, meeting in groups, researching some more, planning, coordinating, choosing a title (a possible title), discussing further, thinking about it, dreaming about how good it will be...

I started the business in the fall of 1996 after discussing the idea with my wife, Gay Gennings. While she worked in Real Estate, she had a keen interest in education as well and saw the possibilities.