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Children’s Home & Aid’s Woman’s Board Honors Its Past While Securing the Future of Illinois Children

For more than 100 years, the Children’s Home & Aid Woman’s Board has worked diligently to raise funds to help Illinois children and families thrive. This past year, Covid-19 disrupted everyone’s lives, including Children’s Home & Aid’s earliest learners. Children’s Home & Aid is a leading child and family service agency in Illinois. They help […]

by Children's Home & Aid | Partnership

August 10, 2021

School Burnout: 4 Tips for Helping Kids Reignite their Love of Learning

School burnout is much more common then you think. Joan Almon, Executive director of the U.S. Alliance for Childhood, calls it, “the dirty little secret of education.” Most kids enter Kindergarten inherently curious and ready to learn, but by the time they hit 10, 11 or 12 years of age, they’ve lost their love […]

by Beth Engelman

January 19, 2012

Learning Curves: Navigating Success is an Education for Parents

“Did you cry?” friends asked about the college graduation of my oldest child, Nick.

by Susan B. Noyes

August 8, 2009