School counselors can create power bases and have a significant impact upon the surrounding community through work with parents. A three-step program is presented along with supplemental practical activities for consultants to use in working with parents. (Author)

Describes a home-based parent education component of a bilingual, bicultural preschool program which involves parents in the decision-making process concerning their child's education and has effected a language and cultural exchange between the Anglo and Spanish-speaking communities. (CS)

Playcentres assist women with an established role (home) and with an emerging role (work) and help women find status in society. (Published by New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Education House, 178-182 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand.) (Author)

A social worker, a psychiatrist, and a parent discuss the difficulty involved in matching up parent, professional help, and treatment modality when working with abusive parents. (CS)

Five papers summarizing presentations made at the Fourth Annual Early Childhood Education Conference are included in this report. The first presentation, by Evangeline Ward, discusses cooperation, collaboration, change, and advocacy in the context of early childhood education. In the second presentation, Irving Lazar identifies social trends…

While parent education has become popular among educators and reformers, the long-term implications of the emphasis on parent education deserve careful and dispassionate examination. Are exclusively center-based developmental programs for preschool children to be discredited? Should federally-sponsored intervention programs insist on parent…

This booklet describes the goals and organization of many early childhood Title I (ECT-I) parent programs and suggests evaluation methods. The information is intended for program planners, evaluation personnel, and teachers. Only activities that involve parents in the education of their child so as to improve his academic competence are discussed.…

The resource guide is intended to assist local Arkansas school districts to establish a program for improving the parent educator partnership in planning and implementing appropriate educational programs for handicapped students. The guide should be used in conjunction with a needs assessment of parents and educators to identify appropriate…

This monograph presents ideas for initiating and/or improving parent education programs. The first of eight sections examines the history of California's parent education since its beginning in 1926. Section 2 discusses developing a parent education philosophy; activities suitable for parent education programs are suggested. Section 3 provides…

A model program of cooperative school and family educational effort in teaching reading is discussed in this paper. Past efforts of schools to involve parents in reading programs are surveyed to reveal the following problems: programs tended to reflect the values of educators instead of parents; programs neglected planned formative and summative…

WEST FRESNO, A DEPRESSED URBAN AREA WITH HOUSING AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, HAD CERTAIN SOCIAL FRICTIONS BETWEEN THE TWO MINORITY GROUPS OF THE AREA, NEGROES AND MEXICANS. ONE OF THE STRENGTHS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS THE CONCERN OF SOME PARENTS AND LAY GROUPS FOR THE YOUTH AND THEIR PROBLEMS. A BREAKTHROUGH PROJECT WAS PROPOSED FOR SIX ELEMENTARY…

THE GOALS OF THE PROGRAM ARE (1) TO IMPROVE SCHOOL-HOME COMMUNICATION, (2) TO MEDIATE THE CHILD'S TRANSITION TO SCHOOL, (3) TO PROVIDE MORE ADULT CONTACTS, (4) TO GIVE PARENTS NEW KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND NEW IDEAS OF WAYS FOR WORKING WITH THEIR OWN CHILDREN, AND (5) TO RELIEVE THE TEACHER OF SOME NONTEACHING ACTIVITIES. THE PARENTS WHO…

These handbooks (1978 and 1980) describe procedures for involving parents on school activities and for conducting (1) parent-child interaction activities in schools for disadvantaged families, and (2) workshops for disadvantaged parents to facilitate their social, educational and caregiver role development. The 1978 handbook includes ideas and…