Parents experience difficulty helping their children with math at home. Math teachers can provide guidance or materials to parents. Little is known about whether this help from math teachers has benefits for parental support at home and thus contributes to students' academic development in math. The current study examines longitudinal associations…

Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort were used to examine the extent to which early parenting predicted African American children's kindergarten social-emotional functioning. Teachers rated children's classroom social-emotional functioning in four areas (i.e., approaches to learning, self-control, interpersonal…

This study measures the effectiveness of mothers functioning as teachers with their own pre-school academically high-risk children. Results indicate that mothers can use structured visual perceptual training to increase the perceptual development of their children. The parents reported favorable attitudes concerning their new roles. (Author/PC)