Assembly woman Sally Leiber wants to protect toddlers and babies and plans to introduce a bill to prevent spankings.  On latimes.com the Bay Area Democrat explains her reasoning in an article titled ''A spanking ban:  are we gonna get it?''  She has received a barrage of emails, some of them telling her to mind her ...

The ongoing dilemma about where to house and how to motivate middle school students is back in the news on newyorktimes.com.  As any parent with a child this age will tell you, middle school students are an unusual lot.  They come in a variety of sizes with all sorts of interesting personalities.  If you teach them ...

I knew it would happen.  Yet another committee has decided that teachers are the ones to blame when students don't do well.  After all, they can't do anything about the parents or living situations that some of these children might have, so according to dallasnews.com a new report stresses the improvement of ...