The article reviews assumptions concerning parental roles in education of handicapped children and presents a parent career education program model. (PHR)

The principal of P.S. 84 in New York City recounts how his school has, with the aid of parents, managed to change and implement open education while suffering from staff cuts and other consequences of reduced funding. (IRT)

The author reviews the development of a parents' group at the Bradford Grange School (Manchester, United Kingdom) for ESN (educationally subnormal) children. Problems with the initial parents' group are pointed out, successful approaches are considered, and the importance of parent involvement is stressed. (SBH)

The head of a residential school suggests some methods for involving parents in educational therapy. (SBH)

Provides ideas for involving fathers in a day care center along with samples of activities and experiments in science and mathematics and in a "Science and Math Fair." (MP)

Uses the authors' experiences in Texas to suggest some strategies that teachers and parents can use to affect the state legislative process. (MP)

The involvement of youth in Parent Teacher Association (PTA) activities across the country is an encouraging sign for education. (LD)

Stresses the importance of making the schools accessible to single parents and of avoiding the mistake of stereotyping. (LD)

With careful planning and broad involvement, the Falls Church, Virginia, schools developed a successful sex and family life curriculum. (Author)

Explains a program which involves parents as equal partners, sharing the responsibility for their children's education. (MKM)

Considers the sacrifices parents make to give their children some pre-school education, where the state offers them none. (Editor/RK)

Discussion groups of 100 teachers, 55 parents, 12 principals, and 40 students; survey responses from 50 parents, and interviews with 15 community members revealed positive attitudes about volunteer involvement in a school district, frustrations about limited time for volunteer coordination, and lack of support structure. Common school assumptions…

Survey responses from 311 British parents involved in preschool groups show that participating parents gain social contacts, increased confidence in parenting, knowledge of child development, experience in managing groups, and greater community involvement. (SK)

Researchers recruiting samples of children through schools typically face considerable challenges in obtaining completed consent forms from parents. Describes a set of procedures used to obtain active parental consent for child participation that resulted in a 95% return rate of consent forms. Rates of return were similar across schools that…

Investigates the impact of poor community health and maternal isolation on mothers' active engagement in a home-visiting family support program. Results showed that if the mother was living in a county that displayed poor community health, or if the mother was isolated from immediate family and friendship networks, the likelihood of actively…