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Is a faster pace spoiling the kindergarten experience?

Strategies for making schools ready for children.

How to ease the step into kindergarten for children with disabilities.

Third graders often find that academic work is harder and social skills more necessary.

How to create a classroom environment for exuberant, industrious, and, sometimes, anxious students.

An innovative program helps gifted students from poor families live up to their potential.

Why otherwise smart kids take dumb risks—and other insights about how teens think.

If students learn to handle stress during middle school, they tend to respond positively to challenges later on.

To tackle the dropout crisis, address attendance, behavior, and course failure early on.

Black 9th graders surmount stumbling blocks and proceed with confidence.

After a few false starts, a peer-mentoring club makes all the difference.

GLO girls raise their voices and their achievement in this leadership development program.

Helping English language learners capture the big prizes.

A precollege program teaches the value of planning ahead.

From pressures to get into a "good school" to leaving a pet, college jitters upset family life.

Peer pressure may widen students' knowledge gaps.

Why rethinking negative assumptions about student behavior can be useful.

Students should be aware of—and not afraid of—their digital footprints.

Some reflections on the best way to leave your principalship.

News and resources from ASCD.

Question by Misty M. LaCour. Responses by S. Dallas Dance, Ron Klemp, and Ayanna Cooper.

Strategies for helping young teens adjust to middle school.

What students worry about and what they want from their teachers.

Experiences that facilitate—and hinder—the passage into 9th grade.