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Learn about all the after school activities that are available for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year on Monday, August 24. Montana Parent Magazine presents the After School & PIR Day Activity Roundup at the Gallatin Valley Mall!

The kids are back in school, which means the good folks at Thrive are once again looking for CAP (Child Advancement Project) mentors to help guide students in the Bozeman Public Schools grades K-12. Can you spare just one hour a week to help brighten our community's future?

Unlike Montana, most states actually close school for something called a "snow day". Much of the country has seen its fair share of brutal snowstorms this winter, and one elementary school outside Cincinnati decided to have some fun with its recorded school cancellation message to …

At a middle school in Sparks, Nevada, on Monday morning, a student shot and killed a teacher, then shot himself in the head fatally, according to early police reports.

Think you’ve got a rough commute?

Didn't everybody's parents bribe them to get good grades? Mine sure did. It never lead to cheating in my case but I think that's because I had such smart friends who pushed me to do well anyway.

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Fall means school, and school means homework, and homework –- for many a family -– means stress and arguments. But getting homework done doesn’t have to be a daily battle. Here are a few easy ways for parents to make the routine a little easier for kids.
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We've got ten good reason schools shouldn’t be cutting arts budgets: these great songs about their hallowed halls. After all, if they eliminated music classes, who’s gonna write songs about how cool school is?

 
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Be True to Your School
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A child’s day doesn’t end when the final school bell rings. In fact for many children it’s just beginning. Where to go for ideas? Oddly, pull from what your kids love most about school — and think outside the sandbox. From the…

School is almost back in session, which means it’s time to start brushing up on tips for taking the bus. The school bus can be a great resource for time-strapped parents and independence-seeking children alike. But it also needs to be approached with safety and care.
Here are five tip…

At the Save Our Schools Million Teacher March in Washington DC on July 30th, actor Matt Damon was grilled on his feelings about public school educators. Damon, who attended public school in Boston as a youth and whose own mother is a public school teacher, made some impassioned remarks in defense of…

It's the last day of school today for many, the official start of summer for the aforementioned many. Is tomorrow then the day that we turn that page? How long have we've been asking that? I know, I know. But school's out forever! It's crunch time now. Mother Nature, for the…