Your Child in Sixth Grade

I recently started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older sixth grade students.
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Sixth Grade Editorial on Homework

I’ve enjoyed hearing readers’ comments about my series of blog posts on making homework meaningful. Recently, I had a wonderful comment from R.C. Feder on this topic. Here’s a bit of that comment, with a link to a video that a group of students made on the subject of homework.

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