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Best NYC School Advisor: Something Nice Someone Else Wrote Today about Private School Essay Support

An email from an Abacus Guide Educational Consulting client today, Many times this week we have wondered, how do people go through this process without Emily? Your help and guidance have been so important to us.  If you'd like this kind of warm empathetic support this year (almost no space available, better if you're calling … Continue reading Best NYC School Advisor: Something Nice Someone Else Wrote Today about Private School Essay Support

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Abacus Guide to Schooling, Enrichment, and Parenting

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Bestselling Recommended Kindergarten Readiness Books, Toys, and Videos

To help you assemble your library and toy box, here are Abacus Guide's recommended books, toys, and videos that parents preparing their kids for kindergarten entry in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale, and Westchester are buying now: Magna-Tiles Translucent Colors Click Magazine Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten Richard … Continue reading Bestselling Recommended Kindergarten Readiness Books, Toys, and Videos

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It’s Not that Different in Canada, eh?: Kindergarten Starting Later, Homework

From no homework to starting kindergarten later, Megan O’Toole looks at how schools are changing in today's National Post of Canada. O'Toole also comments about New Yorkers.  From the article: In the United States particularly, the practice of “redshirting,” or holding a child back from kindergarten an extra year to give them a physical or scholastic edge, has … Continue reading It’s Not that Different in Canada, eh?: Kindergarten Starting Later, Homework

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Private School Kindergarten Essay: What Not to Write (Part One)

Fictional Parent Statement Navy School There are many four-year-olds in this city.  But none compare to Tempo Knickerbocker, beloved daughter of Cappy and Bill Knickerbocker. (In case you are wondering, we are the Knickerbocker family, originally settling in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1665.) Since birth, Tempo demonstrated exceptional promise and precocity.  She reached all developmental milestones … Continue reading Private School Kindergarten Essay: What Not to Write (Part One)

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Redshirting: More Parents Postponing Kindergarten

Pamela Paul, author of Parenting, Inc., an expose about the rising (and often unnecessary) costs of modern parenting, turns her attention in the Times to another parenting trend: redshirting.  More parents are holding their children back because of societal pressure, and because of the demands placed by today's kindergarten.

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Article about Speyer in Today’s Times

A challenge for any new NYC private school is breaking through parents' resistance to spending $30,000 for a new, unproven school. Speyer Legacy School took a giant step forward today when the Times profiled the new private school, focusing on its mission to teach the "gifted".  From the article: Lillian Yang said that she was … Continue reading Article about Speyer in Today’s Times

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Best Books for Moving to New York City: Public Schools

Moving to New York City?  As an educational consultant who helps relocating families find Manhattan and Brooklyn schools, neighborhoods, and enrichment activities, people often come to me for book recommendations.  Here are some of my favorites for NYC transferees and residents looking at NYC public schools: New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parent's … Continue reading Best Books for Moving to New York City: Public Schools