Rural Marion County (Tennessee), the town of Kimball, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and a local community college founded a regional skills center. The center offers a 2-year associate of science degree and classes in GED preparation, parenting, drug abuse prevention, cosmetology, and air conditioning and refrigeration. It has expanded…

This study examined the training and services received by kinship and nonkinship family foster caregivers participating in the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents conducted in 1991. Findings indicated that levels of training and services received were inadequate for both groups. Few differences were found between kinship and…

Surveyed parents' knowledge and beliefs about early development, information and support sources, and receptivity to new information. Found that parents learn about development after becoming parents, feel most able to impact emotional development, do not see the full significance of early childhood, are concerned about caregiver continuity and…

The Family and Child Education (FACE) Program was instituted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an early intervention program to integrate Native American parents, families, and schools through family literacy, parent education, and culturally relevant early childhood education. Describes a FACE program at a Navajo community school, with examples…

The Family Spirit Project provides health and parenting education and in-home support to Navajo and Apache teen parents. The public-health careers of Native professionals allied with the project are described, including a public health administrator, a trainer of field workers, and a medical researcher specializing in communicable diseases that…

Catalogs Montessori citations in the literature. References are divided by over 100 topic areas, including child development; activities; administration; classroom management; special education; bilingual education; gifted and talented education; Head Start; history-social studies; language arts; mathematics; organization news and information;…

Procedures for using word processing or database software to generate information packets for parents are described. The packets highlight the nature of a child's speech-language disorder and provide home activities. Packets can be easily and quickly tailored to meet the needs of individual clients and their families. (Author)

Outlines the evolution and goals of the Family Literacy Project (FLP), developed to encourage parent-school partnerships through regular parent-teacher seminars. The FLP also seeks to improve parents' own literacy skills; provide parents with multiple strategies to help educate their children; and provide teachers and parents with multicultural…

Describes counseling approaches used in a two-year parenting program at a primary school. In addition to individual counseling, counselors can offer in-depth parent training programs, monthly parent presentations, or parent resource materials on needed topics. Such strategies help parents guide their children through most school problems. (RJM)

This article suggests ways that professionals might utilize general public literature about learning disabilities. A rationale for use of general public literature is offered, a five-step procedure for discussing books with students is described, the use of bibliotherapy and reciprocal questioning is discussed, and questions to generate…

The East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, a federal grantee providing Head Start services to migrant families, has developed a continuity system to ensure that comprehensive service delivery occurs for each child and family enrolled. The system focuses on centralized and parent-held documentation, advocacy training for staff and parents, and…

The purpose of this study was to train and empower computer teacher facilitators through enabling them to introduce technology to children, instruct peers in use of computers for early childhood education, and improve family literacy and computer literacy through parent education. Found significant differences and implications for empowered roles…

This follow-up study examined effects (in grades two through five) of a two-year parent-child education program for low-income Mexican-American families of children ages one through three. There were no program effects on school grades, retention, or referrals, but program children achieved significantly higher on tests of reading, language, and…

What effective schools can do to help children from single-parent families is examined, with specific guidelines for educators. Extended day programs and parent education are among the initiatives of both public and Catholic schools. Consistent expectations and routines of school can provide stability for these children. (SLD)

Observations in the infant room of a school-based daycare center for teen mothers revealed how "scripts" of White middle-class mothering were embraced or resisted by White teachers and (primarily) African-American student-mothers. Scripts of good mothering conflicted with similarly constructed scripts of the good student, emphasizing…