Noting that from babyhood through the school years, children learn by observing and interacting with their parents, this book draws on nearly 40 years of combined professional experience to offer practical advice, explain proven strategies, and identify the fundamental skills parents need to encourage positive behavior without the need for…

This guide provides a framework and suggestions for strengthening the quality and impact of parenting education services in Even Start. It is aimed at Even Start state coordinators and local program administrators responsible for supporting and monitoring the quality of parenting education services in Even Start, and at local program staff…

Families in Schools (FIS) is a pioneering parent education model developed by the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project (LAAMP), California, and The Parent Institute for Quality Education. A total of 1,275 parents in 2 large urban school districts participated; 93% were Hispanic, and 36% had less than a high school education. More than 70%…

Even Start is a federally funded program addressing the literacy needs of children and parents by offering parenting education, early childhood education, parent and child together time, and adult education. Noting that recent research on brain development and learning prompts a reexamination of beliefs and practices related to child rearing,…

Noting that parents' use of corporal punishment to discipline their children remains a strongly debated issue, this paper examines the impact of corporal punishment on children's development, focusing primarily on its long-term effectiveness. The paper presents the history of spanking in the United States, including public opinion on corporal…

This policy brief is the fifth of a series of analyses of Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data by CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy). It describes the picture for Head Start and Early Head Start children, families, and programs in the 2002-2003 program year. In this brief, "Head Start" refers to all Head Start programs, including…

A study of the quantity and quality of unpaid parent participation in Head Start centers shows that the size of the center is the most important variable influencing the amount of parent participation. Other critical factors include the purpose of the involvement, staff responsibility and role assignments, and the centers' communications system.…

Article considers the Worth report, which evaluates early childhood education and two important future possibilities - homing and educational technology. (Editor/RK)

The challenge of education is to extend the work of education from a classroom perspective which focuses on the child's learning academic subjects in the classroom with a professional educator to a life-time and life-space perspective which extends from birth onward. (Author)

To increase performance, parents were instructed to present contingent consequences at home. Three methods were used for instructing parents in program management. All three methods resulted in increase in pupils' percent correct, but no substantial difference was observed as a function of mode of parent instruction. (Author)

Author reviews the research and outlines the directions in which future research should proceed with respect to examine the interrelationship of cognitive ability in the child, maternal-child interactional behavior, staging and parent education. (Author/MB)

Content analyses of popular literature publications have been performed for data from 1820-1948. The purposes of the present study were to extend these analyses to present times and to describe what were advocated as good" childrearing procedures over the past 20 years. (Author)

The founding and services of the John Tracy Clinic, an educational center for preschool deaf children in Los Angeles, are described through the example of the Walsh family, two of whose five children are deaf. (KW)

The study concluded that students tend to achieve and have aspirations, attitudes and expectations consistent with the educational level of their same-sex parent. (Author/MF)