This paper summarizes the "Year 3 Evaluation" of the Home Visit Project currently operating in the Sacramento City Unified School District. The project's purpose is to strengthen the relationship between home and school to enhance and enrich student-teacher interactions and relationships, to improve the frequency and quality of…

With 13.9 million members, labor unions represent more working families than any other organization in the United States. Although meeting the child care challenge is not as high a priority in some quarters of the labor movement as in others, it is still a major concern. Since the advent of new leadership in the labor movement in the mid-1990s,…

The effects of social and family disruption from stress in the work place has caused the American Psychological Association to conclude that "American workers...constitute a work force more at risk than ever for psychological, physical, and behavioral health problems." The study explores what can be learned from successful coping and…

This paper is designed to enable disability activists, parents, and advocates to negotiate effectively. It begins by describing negotiations for short-term or long-term changes and different approaches for negotiating. Steps for preparing for negotiation are listed, along with strategies: (1) control the negotiation session; (2) never negotiate…

This longitudinal study examined the effects of fathers' perceptions of work stress on the father-child relationship. The sample of families was fairly homogenous: all two-parent families, primarily white and of European descent, with a target child who, at the beginning of the study, was in fourth grade. In a little less than half the families,…

Looks at the evolution of open education in the United States. Focuses on the organizational changes that have been made to allow for open education. (DN)

Some of the trouble in education today could be alleviated by opening schools, colleges and universities with limited objectives; clearly stated purposes and programs; financial aid to students; teachers and professors committed to the programs; and survival of the institutions dependent upon the tests of the market place." (Author)

Suggests ways in which school social worker can help youngster and his family adjust to the school and community, as well as ways in which the school can create a learning climate which takes into consideration the cultural differences of thechild. (CJ)

A collaborative relationship among teachers, parents, students, and citizens can educate students more successfully than the present antilearning educational bureaucracy. (Author/MLF)

A principal whose school was closed draws from her experience 10 ways to make the school closing experience more successful. (JM)

This article describes the Milton Keynes Home-School Link project, which provides home instruction for parents with preschoolers. Funded by the Manpower Services Commission, the project provides short-term employment for out-of-work teachers, who serve as home visitors, and unemployed young people, who act as aides. (SJL)

Birth order effects in brothers were found to derive from difference in family size. Effects for family size were found even with socioeconomic background controlled. Nor were family size effects explained by parental ability. The importance of unmeasured preferences or economic resources that vary across families was suggested. (Author/RD)

Maintains that many adolescents have rebelled against compulsory school attendance and proposes three alternatives: home-based educational work programs, on-the-job training programs through cooperation of schools and industry, and government sponsored work study programs. (ST)

Since 1973, the UCLA Family Styles Project has studied a sample of nontraditional Caucasian families (single mothers, social contract families, communal families) plus a comparison group of conventional nuclear families. Findings are reported on parents' personal/social values and changes in childrearing practices. Implications for education are…