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Education Planet has experienced educators, programmers and business professionals who are committed to delivering powerful, easy to use web-based applications to K-12 teachers. Education Planet also provides teachers, students and parents with convenient access to quality, teacher approved educational resources.

Fun Brain - The Internet's #1 Education site for K-8 Teachers, Kids and Parents! Lots of games and quizzes!

Interactive Math Tutor.com offers you or your child individualized tutoring in a computer-based interactive setting. You or your child can learn all levels of math with the same attention and hands-on care as if the tutor were in your home. Whatever help you require, from basic math to calculus, classes will be conducted interactively over the Internet to provide a learning situation as personalized and effective as though the tutor were there with you. Receive math instruction in the comfort and quiet of your own home, at a time that is convenient for you.

Kids Creative Time - Dedicated to providing products that strengthen and build the groundwork for exploration amd creativity. Brought to you by two teachers who saw the need for more parent and child interaction. Make learning fun!

KinderArt The largest collection of free art lesson plans and art education information on the Internet.

Mrs. ABC's spelling and phonics curriculum. - Fun and exciting way for young readers to learn spelling, and increase their vocabulary!

Print and Learn For Kids - Free lessons and excersises to print for kids in grades K-3. Topics include shapes, counting, arithmetic, writing and more!

Wee Ones/Wee Parents E-magazines, an online children's magazine and parenting magazine, promoting literacy. Free, updated monthly for children ages 3-8 and their parents. Also Wee Teach, a teacher's resource section.

Parenting A Struggling Reader is a comprehensive, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty. Provides a revolutionary road map for any parent facing this challenging problem. Acknowledging that parents often lose valuable years by waiting for their school systems to test for a child’s reading disability, Hall and Moats offer a detailed, realistic program for getting parents actively involved in their children’s reading lives. With a four-step plan for identifying and resolving deficiencies, as well as advice for those whose kids received weak instruction during the crucial early years, this is a landmark publication that promises unprecedented hope for the next generation of Information Age citizens.

Yardsticks: Children in the Classroon Ages 4-14: A Resource for Parents and Teachers offers information on the developmental stages children go through and what teachers and parents can expect at these ages. A great reference book for parents and teachers!