School Age

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." ---Albert Einstein

Book Adventure: a reading movitation site for grades K-8.

Child Care Aware: Resources to help you choose childcare services.

EarlyChildhood.com: Lifelong learning starts here.

Family Education: parenting advice, child development, and family reference.

Get Ready to Read includes screening tools.

Girl Talk: student-to-student mentoring program for middle school and high school.

Home School Legal Defense Association

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Center for Education Statistics: lots of data on student performance, education salaries, school districts, and much more.

NCES: Private School Search

National Center for Learning Disabilities

Parentzone: Parents of gradeschoolers, tweens, and teens find advice, information, community, and resources.

PTA: Parent Teacher Association.

PTO: Parent Teacher Organizations, groups that are independent of the national PTA.

Reach Out and Read: a program that promotes early literacy by bringing new books and advice about the importance of reading aloud into the pediatric exam room.

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).

Scholastic: Your School-age Child.

School Matters: research information on public schools, such as SAT scores, reading and math proficiency scores, demographics, etc.

U.S. Department of Education: checklist and tips for parents on how to help your child in school, etc.

Zoobooks - The #1 Kids Magazine about Animals! 

Children's Book of the Month Club New This Month