This Research-to-Policy Resource List compiles empirical research on American LGBT families' experiences with ECE and providers' experiences and preparation for working with LGBT families. The three reviews that begin the list summarize the research literature published through 2012. The remaining resources on the list include the research…

The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to provide educators with sources that define parent and family involvement and offer suggestions for how to involve families in the transition planning process. Based on the categorical nature of the literature identified, the bibliography is organized by the following categories: parents of students…

REL Pacific at McREL, one of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), serves educators in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai'i, the Republic of the…

As part of a Current Issues in Education series, this report focuses on public school choice. A 14-page annotated bibliography follows a brief introduction and a list of 11 references on the most recent news items involving the school choice issue. (SI)

This bibliography of materials on home school cooperation was compiled to meet the literature needs of the project on Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools (WIEDS), of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas. It covers a range of areas including parents as volunteers, citizen participation in decision making,…

This monograph on quality in early childhood programs contains two parts: an exploratory essay on the subject and an annotated bibliography selected from a search of the ERIC data base from 1985 through April 1993. The essay examines five perspectives on assessing the quality of early childhood programs. A top-down perspective on quality…

Having children prepare meals is one way they can apply school learning to the everyday world. Lists 39 books that show how home-school or kitchen-classroom learning can merge. Titles listed include cookbooks, books about healthy cooking, and books about cooking and fiction, cooking and poetry, and cooking and celebrations. (TM)

The annotated bibliography is intended to give classroom teachers and educational planners background information and resource materials on the psychosocial and health concerns of adolescents with chronic illnesses. The 26 bibliographic citations date from 1980 to 1988 and are grouped into the following categories: general medical and social…

This report announces the publication of an annotated bibliography on family literacy and family literacy programs. The bibliography summarizes writings and research on family literacy and on topics directly relevant to family literacy programs. Directed toward program staff, researchers, community leaders, and policymakers, the publication covers…

This information analysis paper reviews the literature on parent and family counseling, identified by a computer search of the ERIC data base from November 1966 through December 1979. An overview of parent and family counseling is followed by a presentation of basic issues, such as the counselor's role as a consultant to parents and teachers,…

This annotated bibliography cites 49 studies of effects of parent involvement on children's academic achievement and the performance of schools. The research tends to treat three broad approaches to parent involvement, namely those that attempt to: (1) improve the parent-child relationship in the context of the family; (2) integrate parents into…

This paper contains a literature review on mental health programs, prevention measures, and school systems. The mental health of school children is examined, the concept of prevention is reviewed, and the role of the school system in prevention is discussed. Literature dealing with school-based efforts in concert with the family and the community…

An update of the initial bibliography, published in 1976 and covering 1965-1975, this bibliography confines itself to school-and community-related items published in Australia, the United States, Great Britain, and Canada between 1975 and 1977. Categories, arranged systematically A-Z with each item listed alphabetically by author/title within each…

This abstract bibliography cites recent ERIC documents and journal articles focusing on various aspects of family/school relationships. Entries have been grouped into five sections: Family/School/Community Relationships; Parents and Teachers; School/Home Learning; Parents/School Supporting Services and General. Entries include resumes from…

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act was passed in 1974 because some legislation was needed in order to discourage the abuse of individual rights due to the personal prejudices and/or disapproval of others. There are thousands of persons in American society who because of advanced educational training and a keen sense of perceptivity, can…