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"Jo Handelsman remembers the moment she realized something was seriously wrong with the way science was taught. She was an undergraduate at Cornell University in her junior year, sitting in a biology lecture with an unusually good professor. "It suddenly occurred to me that every idea I had memorized or learned or thought I understood in a textbook was actually the result of scientific investigation," said Handelsman, who is now a professor at Yale. "And that just floored me." She also couldn't help thinking why she hadn't realized this before. "What was missing that it took me so long?""

"Whether your child is having a positive or negative experience in school, it's important to make the most of your parent-teacher conference. Here are tips to help you and the teacher work together toward success for your child at parent-teacher conferences."