This brochure for parents, in English- and Spanish-language versions, provides facts about infants' brains and offers suggestions for parents to help their baby's development by providing experiences to stimulate neural development. The facts are: (1) a baby's brain needs many different experiences to be nourished, such as being talked or sung to…

This report provides data on the current educational condition of Hispanics from early childhood through graduate and professional education. It also offers strategies for multiple sectors, parents, schools, communities, the private sector, and the government, to improve Hispanic educational achievement. The majority of policy decisions on…

Noting that parenting today is challenging because of the dangerous examples and attitudes to which children are exposed, this book discusses seven habits that parents can adopt to help them establish a good relationship with their children. Chapters 1 through 3 discuss the habits that deal with the styles and routines in daily situations: (1)…

Although many studies show that children who have rich early childhood experiences are better prepared for academic learning in school, many kindergarten teachers report that a large, and growing, number of children are not ready to learn when they arrive for their first day of school. This booklet, directed to parents, provides information on the…

Recent British literature on home-school communication is discussed in relation to the rights of parents, teachers and pupils. (Editor)

The parent of a 7 1/2-year-old child with a profound hearing loss who attends regular public school discribes the family's philosophy in raising the child and the training program used to encourage optimum use of residual hearing (DB)

Advocated is a model for the care of emotionally disturbed children which rejects the position that disturbed children are ill, and which emphasizes viewing children's problems in the context of constant mutual interactions between children and their families, schools, or society. (GW)

Discusses the Home Start program, the new three-year Head Start demonstration program designed to bring comprehensive child development services to children and families in their own homes by helping parents provide many of the same services Head Start offers children in centers. (Author/JM)

In most cases, mothers of the undisturbed and fathers of the disturbed children were alike in that they had difficulty in displaying authority over the child. In contrast, fathers of the nondisturbed and mothers of the disturbed families were more authoritarian. (Author)

The roles of the teacher, the parent, and the student and the implications of career education for course content are discussed. (GB)

Community participation has many faces, but is moving increasingly away from a group notion toward the individual participant, that is, each and every parent and student as educational consumer. (Author)

Presents as a 16-page appendix one of 25 Forum Reports from the White House Conference on Children, 1970. (MB)

Not always apparent is the fact that the mother becomes literally the child's first teacher. (Author)