The effects of high stakes testing may be critical in the lives of public school students and may have many consequences for schools and teachers. There are no easy answers in measuring student achievement and in holding teachers accountable for learner progress. High stakes testing also involves responsibilities on the part of the principal who…

A study investigated the portrayal of mothers and fathers in Japanese and non-Japanese children's literature and how stereotypically they are depicted as role models. Japanese public libraries contain many translated foreign books, mostly Western in origin. For this study's purposes, 25 Japanese books, 25 translated books from English-speaking…

This book examines the experiences of 32 men participating in Parents' Fair Share (PFS), which was designed to help them get better jobs, pay child support, and become more involved with their children. All participants were low-income, noncustodial fathers who were not paying court mandated child support. Most were African American or Latino and…

This paper will adopt Yrjo Engestrom's (1999) expansive learning approach to analyze the situation of a woman, Marieanne, who emigrated to Australia as a child and who later, as a parent, became determined to take an active part in her children's education in order to avoid or ameliorate the repetition of her own negative experiences with…

As rates of divorce and nonmarital childbearing have increased in recent decades, the percentage of children and fathers who live apart from one another has also increased. Yet our knowledge of how father involvement affects children's well-being in these situations is quite limited, since most research on fathers and children has focused on…

Recently at a school meeting, a group of parents shared with each other their vision and dreams for their children. As with most parents IDRA has worked with, these parents said they want their children to get a good education; to have many choices of professions; and to not lose their language, culture, values and faith of the family. All of…

Discussed the home environments of drug users vs. non-drug users and considered the influence of the father upon adolescent social attitudes. (RK)

Discusses the need for liberation from culturally imposed roles that are restrictively narrow and unresponsive to the challenges and opportunities of contemporary life. (Author)

Article considered the teamwork between home and school that must be developed for the education of future generations in the value of their Catholic faith. (Author/RK)

The data clearly indicate that interventions which focus on parents are more effective in improving children and school performance than is time limited psychotherapy. (Author)

This article presents the description of a successful communications program directed toward assisting parents in their desire to improve their child rearing competencies. (Author)

To attain the conditions of cooperativeness, high motivation, and good rapport between therapist and parent, it is suggested that the therapeutic educator adopt attitudes which ehlp him behave in a way such that the parent perceives him as one who understands and respects the parent as an indispensable helpmate. (Author/BY)

A paradigm wherein a mother was reinforced for observing and modeling her child's therapist produced significant changes in a maladaptive parent-child interaction pattern. (Author)

Examines various means by which teachers of handicapped children can improve the educational programs by involving the parents meaningfully in the program. (Author/CB)