An interdisciplinary, in-depth study involving 40 children and nine families was conducted among Canadian Indians in order to learn their attitudes toward education. (Author/RK)

Discusses the changing character of schools and their function as the emotional center for parents and their children. (RK)

Analysis of the attitudes and behavior of graduates of Catholic Colleges seven years after graduation indicated that the experience of attending a Catholic college caused no economic, educational, or intellectual handicaps for the alumni on measures of religious behavior and on measures of political and social liberalism." (Author)

This study examined relationships between school achievement and measures of family functioning of school maladjusted children. It was found that positive relationships exist between these variables, and it is suggested that educators can and should consider total family interaction when engaging in intervention programs with school maladjusted…

Few areas of education have expanded as rapidly as preschool education in Europe during the 1970s. Questions have arisen, however, about whether such education should be publicly or privately funded. Britain and the Netherlands provide examples of the importance of involving parents in preschool education. (PB)

Presents an overview of the nature of adolescence, analyzes governmental responses to troubled adolescents, and suggests a model for working with troubled teenagers. Describes remedial, therapeutic, and social services provided for adolescents in the District of Columbia public schools. (Author/GC)

Reviews prior and current educational practices affecting children from poor and minority families. Discusses educational philosophies underlying the delivery of educational services to these children and concepts of equal educational opportunity and proposes a model for quality education in the 1980s. (GC)

The key to successful family-school linkages is the RFV Quotient: risk, flak, and vulnerability. Educators need to be willing to open up communications and to deal with the conflicts that this will bring. (SJL)

This article is an essay review of the book "Project Head Start: A Legacy of the War on Poverty," coedited by Edward Zigler and Jeanette Valentine. (DB)

Describes the major objective of schools and families in East Germany as the education of universally and harmoniously developed socialist personalities. Ways in which families and schools work together to achieve this objective include investigation by teachers of the social and educational situation of pupils' families and detailed reports by…

A close-up view of the Parent Child Training Center in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, one of a growing number of early childhood and family education programs in the state. (Author/MP)

Describes how staff at a Wisconsin elementary school developed a plan that dramatically increased parents' participation and visibility and created a useful method of tracking and measuring that participation. Teachers used a simple grid to chart parents' participation in various activities throughout the year. By the second year, the school had…

A family-friendly school incorporates many aspects of school reform going on throughout the country. Parents would be allowed choice in selecting the school, the teacher, calendar, and schedule. Normal operation hours for a school could become 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Lists 12 sources for additional information. (MLF)

Investigated process of spillover between marital quality and job satisfaction among married individuals. Results indicated increases in marital satisfaction were significantly related to increases in job satisfaction, and increases in marital discord were significantly related to declines in job satisfaction. These processes operate similarly for…

Offers guidelines for a homework assignment in which parents and children collaborate to construct a "personal timeline" of the child's life. Suggestions are offered regarding the introduction of timelines, timeline topics and strategies, timelines as advance organizers, and other ways to use timelines in the curriculum. Research on…