Understanding No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

Answers to questions about No Child Left Behind and Adequate Yearly Progress.

Nevada Report Card

The Nevada Department of Education’s public education accountability reporting website.

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ABC's for Parents

26 ways to help your child in school.

Homework Behavior Plan

Focus on realistic strategies, goals, and rewards that can help get the job done.

Homework Tips

Suggestions to make homework easier for both parents and students.

Last Minute Testing Tips

These last-minute, test-prep tips and strategies will help your child relax for the big test.

Newspaper Cut and Match

This activity requires your child to do some independent, interpretive thinking. It also encourages creativity.

Read the Newspaper Together

Reading the newspaper together is great practice for big tests.

Standardized Tests: Learn the Basics

Answers to parents' top six questions about tests.

Take a Walk in a Character's Shoes

This activity requires your child to place himself in a TV character's position.

Ten Ways to Help Your Kids Get Organized

Use these tips to help your kids become more organized.

Watch TV and Find the Pattern

This critical-thinking activity encourages your child to think about certain patterns that can be found while watching a weekly half-hour or hour-long TV program.

Watch TV Together to Improve Your Child's Test-Taking Skills

Watching television with your kids is a great way to start preparing them for a standardized test.

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Communication Tips for Students with Learning Disabilities

Great tips for kids to use at school and home.

Dyslexia and Your Child

How you can help your child with dyslexia.

Five Strategies to Support Your Child with Learning Disabilities

Five of the most important things parents can do if their child has a learning disability.

Learning Disabilities and Your Child: The Early Years

A guide to learning disabilities for you and your child.

Ten Questions and Answers about Learning Disabilities

Find out about learning disabilities and how they affect your child.

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ADHD: An Introduction

The characteristics of ADD evident 40 years ago are still the same today. It is our understanding of ADD and ADHD that has evolved.

ADHD: Special Education

Do kids with ADHD need special education services?

ADHD: What are the Signs?

Professionals who diagnose ADHD use the diagnostic criteria set forth by the American Psychiatric Association (1994) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Charting: Discipline That Works

Have a discipline problem that needs a fresh approach? Learn when, how, and why this technique works!

Kids and Inappropriate Behavior

Find out why kids say the darndest things, and how you should react when it happens.

Logical Consequences: Discipline That Works

Here's a discipline technique that will save you time and frustration.

Talking About Limits

Has "Everyone else is doing it!" become your preteen's battle cry? Here's how you can set limits you both can live with.

Talking with Kids About Their Day

Get the scoop on school from your child with more than a one-word answer. 

The Time Out: Discipline That Works!

Learn when to use this discipline technique, how it works, and why.  Even if you haven't had success with it lately, our tips can make a time out, time well spent.

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