Parent support teams can provide help to parents during the crucial early years of children's language development. (MKM)

As part of an ongoing program to study the development of children in interaction with their environment, urban and rural low income families of 1212 nine-year-old children were interviewed. The relationship of family variables to academic achievement and later cognitive-perceptual performance was also examined. (Author/GC)

Successful and unsuccessful elementary school students are compared with respect to: (1) self-esteem, (2) self-concept of academic ability, (3) intellectual achievement responsibility--locus of control, and (4) the students' concept of home concern and reward for academic achievement. Several self concept tests are described, and bibliographical…

This essay is a critical overview of the ideology, politics, and implications of recent federal initiatives in parent education. (MM)

According to confluence theory, a child is helped or hindered in intellectual development according to the average absolute intelligence (mental age) in the family when the child is born. An analysis of test scores, family information, and socioeconomic data of 36,000 college applicants in Colombia failed to support this theory. (Author/CP)

Provided is a perspective on the family's role in the education of handicapped children--one which views the family as an educational agent. (BD)

Characterizes the relationship between family and school as educational agents during the nineteenth century. Based on personal-history documents, the article examines effects of social and economic change on family life, individual development, and school role. (AV)

This study used discriminant analysis to investigate the direction and intensity of student, parent, and school personnel attitudes, as measured by the Adjective Rating Scale (ARS), toward two college courses being offered in their high schools. (Author)

This study focuses on the ways in which various methods of instruction affect elementary school children's political attitudes and knowledge toward the regime level--values (goals and principles), norms, and structure of authority--of the political system. (MJB)

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Examined the relation between self-report and behavioral ratings of depression for young adolescents and their mothers, and the relation between, and family correlates and predictors of, adolescent and maternal depression. Found self-report and behavioral-rating measures of depression related for mothers but not for adolescents, and maternal and…

This article explores concepts and strategies pertaining to systemic family assessment, enumerates the essential principles of systems theory, and discusses the purposes of family assessment in the context of children's school-related problems. An overview of assessment strategies is provided. (Author/LMO)

Urges teachers to educate themselves and others about alcoholism and its effects on the family; create a safe non-threatening school environment in which children of alcoholics can begin to understand their lives; and initate a support group for children of alcoholics. (DMM)

Indicates that (1) age and family control did not influence children's television viewing levels; (2) age influenced program preferences of children; (3) cartoon preferences related negatively to family control for the youngest groups; and (4) comedy and children's program preferences and television realism related positively to family control for…

Reinforces the idea of the importance of home influences in early reading behavior. Reveals a significant positive correlation between the literary environment of the home and the "literacy set" of a child in a preschool setting. (FL)