Education

By Marge Eberts and Peggy Gisler

 Question: Our 2-year-old daughter leaves the neighborhood children her age in the dust. She is so much more advanced intellectually. Not only is her vocabulary far more sophisticated, she can do simple addition problems without any difficulty. What should we look for in a preschool for our child? — Very Advanced

By Jesse Gallegos
Luna Community College

Luna Community College general science student Auritha Roybal and Lisa Bentson, a general biology instructor, will both be attending a Genomic Education Partnership Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis in June.

By Marge Eberts and Peggy Gisler

Question: My son in 10th grade is doing well in school except when it comes to writing essays for his English class. He just doesn’t know how to choose a topic or to organize what he wants to say. His teacher certainly hasn’t been helpful. He has had about zero instruction in writing essays.

By Lisa Leff
The Associated Press

SAN PABLO, Calif. — Seven-year-old Ja’Niyah Smith’s first-grade class filed into a computer lab at a suburban San Francisco school recently and as they do every week practiced using mouses to pop bubbles with a cartoon pickle, catch flies with a frog’s tongue and arrange virtual blocks into words.

The students, their legs dangling off their chairs, fell quiet, the silence broken by an occasional “I did it!”