Download full textERIC Number: ED386321
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994-Oct-7
Pages: 63
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ISBN: ISBN-0-16-046141-3
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Promising Practices: Parental Involvement in School. Hearing to Promote Parental Involvement in Their Children's Education, before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
These Congressional hearing transcripts present testimony on the need to encourage parent involvement in children's education, focusing on national and local programs and activities designed to promote such involvement. Testimony was heard from: (1) Senators Christopher J. Dodd and James M. Jeffords; (2) Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley; (2) the chair of the National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education; (3) a mother and her 11th-grade daughter; (4) the executive director of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce's business-education partnership; (5) a mother of three children; and (6) a high school principal. The prepared statements of four of the witnesses and related materials are appended. (MDM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role, Hearings, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Program Descriptions, Student Attitudes
U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402.
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
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