Arizona Republic

Ah. The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. As a mothering coach, I support parents to make things easy on themselves and not create more stress. First and foremost in encouraging summer reading is to make it fun.

There is no one-stop shop for autism in the Valley to provide diagnoses, medical, psychiatric and school services, leaving families feeling isolated and lost.

Tyler and Wendy Ellsworth, a Gilbert couple in their 30s, have spent more than 12 years in their quest to help their eldest child, Danny. When Danny was an infant, the Ellsworths weren't sure whether his behavior was typical. After all, he was their first baby.

Two Tucson school districts say they can do a better job of teaching English to non-English speakers and they intend to seek alternatives to a teaching mandate from the state Legislature.

Significantly, if a child is born into a literate society, the child comes into daily contact with many manifestations of written language.

The school year has just wrapped up, you've received your child's report card and, to your dismay, it wasn't what you hoped it would be. The questions begin to stream: Was he not paying attention? Is he disinterested in school? Was he misbehaving?

Textbooks would have to be eliminated from classrooms that move to a digital curriculum under legislation that would provide a new way for schools to pay for computers necessary for ''e-learning.''

How can we use brain research to get students more interested in learning and more successful in the classroom?

Bill to protect PE, arts classes vetoed
Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a measure Tuesday that was intended to protect gym classes and the teaching of music and the arts from K-12 cuts.

For the past 25 years through its A+ School Recognition Program, the Arizona Educational Foundation has sought to identify and recognize schools that go above and beyond what the public expects should occur at every school in Arizona.

The Arizona State Board of Education will look at a new law Monday that allows it to take over school districts with a history of performing poorly on the state's report card.

High-school seniors who couldn't pass the AIMS test will be able to graduate this month now that Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed a bill that allows for exceptions.

What do we really know about how we learn,and what is the role of the teacher in the learning process?  We acquire knowledge when we are involved with meaningful content. This means that if we are merely imitating or simply repeating something, we are not genuinely involved in the learning process.

A federal judge ordered the Deer Valley Unified School District to allow a Christian student club to air upcoming meetings during Mountain Ridge High School's morning announcements.

The words "study" and "party" aren't synonymous, but faculty at Arizona State University's School of Community Resources and Development have found a way to turn the stress of studying into a great time.