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Download full textUS Department of Education, 2004
This biweekly newsletter contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. It is designed expressly for parents and families. This issue highlights guidance, recently released by the U.S. Department of Education, on parental involvement to help states, school districts, and schools ensure that parents, as their child's…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Parent School Relationship
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of General Academic Education. – 1986
This booklet has been prepared primarily to assist parents as they strive to be active partners with the school in the education of their children. It is designed to provide information and practical suggestions on how this teamwork can be accomplished. The introduction cautions parents that, when noting the characteristics of a particular age…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
Montana Univ., Missoula. Div. of Educational Research and Services. – 1990
This compilation of essays and resources focuses on acceptance of children with disabilities and cooperation between parents and early intervention specialists. The compilation includes the following items written by Jan Spiegle-Mariska (sometimes cited as Jan Mariska): "Building Effective Parent/Professional Partnerships"; "What…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cooperative Planning, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1992
This information booklet for parents answers some of the questions parents often ask about their children's participation in basic skills improvement programs. It suggests ways in which parents can support and reinforce the school's role and offers suggestions for parent involvement and ideas for at-home activities to support skill development.…
Descriptors: Activities, Basic Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Compensatory Education
Watson, Bernardine H. – 1992
This interim report documents early experiences with recruitment, retention, service delivery, and establishment of links with employment/training and child support enforcement agencies for participants in the first year of a young unwed fathers program; and presents a profile of the 228 young fathers who had enrolled in the program by the end of…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Fathers
Nathanson, Jeanne H., Ed. – OSERS News in Print, 1993
This journal issue focuses on cooperative partnership programs for the improvement of educational services to students with disabilities. The eight articles are: (1) "Partner-Based Prelinguistic Intervention: A Preliminary Report" by M. Jeanne Wilcox (which found the intervention procedures had a strong effect on mother-child dyads); (2)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities
Braden, William; And Others – 1988
This report examines preschool and early primary education in the Chicago (Illinois) public schools, and its impact on disadvantaged minority children. Statistical data were gathered by a survey of 196 kindergarten teachers. For comparison, the survey was also sent to kindergarten teachers in Wilmette (Illinois), a Chicago suburb. Part 1,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Childhood Needs, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
