Parents describe a want for better sex education for their young children compared to their own myth and silence-led experiences while growing up. However, introducing the vagina has proved a challenging step too far for many parents. This study arose from a secondary qualitative data analysis of 20 focus groups with parents in Ireland about how…

Purpose/Objectives: Explore principal, foodservice staff, and parent perceptions of implementing reusable serviceware in elementary school lunch settings. Methods: Cross-sectional qualitative study conducted May-June 2024 in one California school district which recently transitioned to reusable serviceware. School staff (n=19) participated in…

This study uses both quantitative and qualitative data to examine how screen media use and problematic media use changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic (pre-onset, 3-months and 15-months post-onset). We examined changes in screen media use (time spent) and problematic media use (seemingly addicted behavior) in children ages 1.17-11.42…

This study provides evidence of fundamental differences in how students, parents/guardians, teachers, and administrators understand and approach the purposes and practices of grading. Using census sampling, researchers analysed survey responses from 1,907 educational stakeholders in a medium-size Midwest US school district. Multivariate analysis…

This article proposes a fully nonparametric model to investigate the dynamics of intergenerational income mobility for discrete outcomes. In our model, an individual's income class probabilities depend on parental income in a manner that accommodates nonlinearities and interactions among various individual and parental characteristics, including…

This study examines the effects of parental support on learning engagement and the mediating roles of self-regulated learning (SRL) in mathematics online learning environments. A sample of 112 undergraduate students from the mathematics departments of two public universities in Malaysia participated in the study. We analyzed the data using…

This study examines how parents' perceived value influences the parent-teacher relationship in Taiwanese preschools, with service quality and social media use serving as mediating factors. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted, and data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to test both the…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are exploring the potential of innovative media formats for supporting young children's learning as part of their Ready To Learn Initiative, which focuses on the development and distribution of high-quality media resources to support school readiness and early…

This ethnographic study applies a "language justice" (LJ) lens to the interpreting services provided to linguistically-minoritized families in a California school district. The LJ approach emerged out of immigrant rights organizing in the U.S. Southeast, and can be defined as systematic fair treatment of people of all linguistic…

While K-12 online distance education (ODE) continues to expand, demand-side factors contributing to its growth continue to be understudied. Student and parent experiences of online schooling have had growing attention, particularly during and post COVID-19, while research exploring exit factors remains scant. This literature review considers key…

Internationally, there has been a dramatic evolution in the numbers of parents choosing to home-school their children for some, or all, of their schooling. Research to date has mainly focussed on the characteristics and motivations of parents who home-school. Little is known about the practice and implementation of home-schooling, especially for…

Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder where children can speak in some situations but are unable to do so in others, despite having age-appropriate language skills. There is limited awareness and understanding of SM in both school settings and society, often leading to misunderstandings of affected children. Early intervention is crucial to…

Purpose: Annually, over 1.25 million children face the reality of one of their parents being incarcerated. Additionally, there has been a massive rise in the incarceration of women, and the majority of those women are mothers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the power and influence of children's literature as windows, mirrors and doors for…

The transition from kindergarten to formal schooling is an important period for examining children's developing mathematical performance. We studied reciprocal associations among children's mathematical performance, parent factors (i.e., numeracy activities, beliefs about children's mathematical skills), and child factors (i.e., mathematics…

Although adolescents' social mobility beliefs are thought to be strongly associated with academic achievement, the impact of parental social mobility beliefs on adolescents has not been considered in previous research. The relationship between parents' and adolescents' social mobility beliefs, as well as their associations with adolescents'…