Keeping your child from dropping out
An article in the April/May issue of Canadian Family discusses the fact that about 10 percent of young Canadians between 20 and 24 years of age don’t have a high school diploma, despite the best efforts of goverments and school boards to keep teens in class. Here are some of the important points made in […] […]
Trends as important as grades to college applications
A common myth is that once students are in the second semester of their junior year of secondary school, it’s too late to improve their grades. The truth is that most colleges and universities look for a trend in high school academic performance and place a lot of importance on improvement in grades during the […] […]
Make Goal Setting a Family Affair
Goal setting is more than just a checklist—it’s a powerful way to motivate students, give purpose to their work, and help them plan their time effectively. When students set meaningful goals, they take ownership of their learning journey and feel more confident about their progress. At Oxford Learning, we encourage families to set goals together […] […]
From Sizzle to Fizzle
Every school year begins with students, parents and teachers who are full of optimism and committed to making this the best year ever. Unfortunately, for some, it doesn’t take long for the sizzle to fizzle and for students to fall behind, leading to anxiety, stress and frustration for students, their parents and even for some […] […]
The Trouble With Words
Your son’s report card is sitting on the table and you are not happy. Math is lower than it should be, his teacher noted that he did not hand in all his assignments, and he got a “Needs Improvement” for effort. What do we do? If you are like most of us, you will sit […] […]
A New Attitude for School This Year
It’s back to school time again! Certainly, we have enjoyed the company of our children for the summer. We have enjoyed our progeny for 9 1/2 weeks or 63 days or 1,512 hours or 90,720 minutes or ’if you are really a masochist’ 5,443,200 seconds! As happy as we may be to have them back […] […]
Attention Deficit Disorder or Simply Poor Concentration Skills? Part 2
You may be interested to know that the decisions to limit vocabulary and to end phonics were a result of ideas that originated in the 1890s. In the 1890s, one group of educators disagreed with an earlier group of educators. They wrote books and lectured and more than 100 years later we have books with […] […]
Turn On Your Brain
Recently a young man described the method he used when he was reading. “Well, I just read,” he said. “You know, I open the page and I look at the words.” In other words, he was just waiting for the words to create an impression on him. But words by themselves are just clusters of […] […]