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Office of Safe and Healthy Students, US Department of Education, 2017
This guide offers information that can help parents raise drug-free children. Parents may read it from front to back like a book, or pick a topic from the Table of Contents and go directly to that page. This guide includes: (1) An overview of substance use among young people, with a special focus on how it affects academic performance; (2)…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Academic Achievement, Risk
Nebraska Department of Education, 2010
Science starts at home. Parents play a crucial role in determining how much science their children learn. This paper presents a list of tips that parents can use to help their children learn science. They are: (1) Focus on your child's interests; (2) Talk with your child about what you are doing-- make it a two-way conversation; (3) Girls are just…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Parents as Teachers, Parent Role, Guides
Nebraska Department of Education, 2010
This paper presents tips that parents can use to help their children become proficient readers. They are: (1) Talk to your children and then listen; (2) Create a language-rich environment; (3) Read with your children; (4) Help students find reading materials (5) When giving gifts or asked for gift ideas for your child, recommend books, magazine…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Family Literacy, Guides, Parents as Teachers
Robertson, William C. – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2005
Shocked by static? Mixed up about magnets? Curious about currents? Teachers can get past memorizing all those electricity-related formulas, rules, and procedures so they can understand the subject at a level deep enough to teach it with confidence and comfort. Here to help is "Electricity and Magnetism," the fifth title in the award-winning NSTA…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Science Teachers, Information Needs, Energy
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol Information (DHHS), Rockville, MD. – 1986
This brochure is one of two publications designed to assist parents in guiding their preadolescents away from experimentation with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, while enhancing the parent-child relationship. It contains a broad overview of prevention. The book is divided into 10 sections. Each section provides suggestions and answers to a…
Descriptors: Alcoholic Beverages, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Parent Child Relationship
Black, Christine Kahan – 1989
Historically in the United States, few people with disabilities have enrolled in science-related courses or entered scientific careers in part because high schools and colleges have not offered accessible training to this population. This document is the teaching and resource guide that accompanies a 30-minute video program in career development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Awareness, Demand Occupations, Disabilities
Kevorkian, Meline M. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005
Research shows that parental involvement can result in higher test scores, positive attitudes, and good behavior. This book is for parents looking for practical, hands-on suggestions to help their child succeed in school. This guide offers advice in promoting academic success among all students. The book features: (1) Real-life stories of parents…
Descriptors: Parent Responsibility, Parent School Relationship, Academic Achievement, Parent Participation
Jensen, Eric – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
Eric Jensen, a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues that students' achievement capacity is greatly underappreciated. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research as well as related studies, the author reveals that the human brain is far more dynamic and malleable than earlier believed. He offers a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Brain, Neurology, Intelligence
Bankston, Karen; White, Douglas – 1988
This book was written for parents interested in preventing alcohol and other drug abuse by their daughters. It addresses special risks that girls face and notes that recent research challenges long-held beliefs that alcohol and other drug abuse problems among females are the same as those among males. The word "drug" is used to include alcohol,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Daughters, Decision Making
Goldman, Elizabeth; Adler, Ralph C. – National Institute for Literacy, 2006
Parents are the child's first and most important teacher. This booklet begins with a story about the parent of a first grade reader. The parent in the story models methods which a real life parent could employ to help a child learn to read such as finding words that begin with the first letter of a child's name, or taking turns with the child…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Reading Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Vocabulary Development
Thomas, Alice, Ed. – Center for Development and Learning, 2004
This issue of the quarterly newsletter, "PLAINTalk," is the second in a four part series, reprinting chapters from Sharon and Craig Ramey's book, "Going to School." Other articles in this issue include: (1) Ten Hallmarks of Children Who Succeed in School (Craig T. Ramey and Sharon L. Ramey); (2) Questioning to Aid Reading Comprehension; (3) Basic…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Parent Role
Larson, Jim; Lockhman, John E. – Guilford Publications, 2005
A complete, readily applicable guide for schoolbased professionals, this book presents an empirically supported group intervention for 8- to 12-year-olds with anger and aggression problems. The Anger Coping Program has been demonstrated effective in reducing teacher- and parent-directed aggression and enhancing students classroom behavior, social…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Coping