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Achieving the Goals, Goal 8: Parental Involvement and Participation - Information about the federal directive to involve more parents in the public educational system. |
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ACT : Information For Parents : Resources - Educational planning and career development assistance for parents. |
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Ages and Grades - Your child's development through the years. |
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Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory for Parents - The Awesome Library organizes 10,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources for parents. It contains a directory, an index, and a search engine. |
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A Boost To Your Child's Standardized Test Scores - Experts lead you through step-by-step activities at home that will increase your child's test scores. Excellent for K-6 national standardized tests - IQ's, IOWA's etc. |
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CGI Parent Newsletters - these provided to classroom teachers to be sent home with children during the school year. They were timed to coincide with lessons going on in the classrooms, and are available here for parents |
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Christians in Public School - Helping Christian parents with children in public school. |
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Coyle's Where in the Web and Other Homeschool & Educational Stuff - Originally started for homeschooling families, this site has a lot to offer any parent or teacher looking for educational resources. Commentary is provided for each categorized educational link helping save time...know BEFORE you click if you want to visit or not! |
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Education K-12 - Help your child succeed in school. Simple ideas that can boost your child's grades. |
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Education - K-12 Articles Index - The number one concern of many parents who visit KidSource OnLine is how to help their children do better in school. These articles do just that. They are focused on specific subjects, skills or lessons for children in grades K through 12. |
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Grade Retention and the Child - Grade retention is a difficult decision. Before making that decision, there are things to consider before making the decision. |
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50+ Great Sites - Recommends sites for preschool-elementary age children and their parents. Created by librarians who work with children and the Web every day. |
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Great Sites - over 700 Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Colorful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Which Care for Them |
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Help Kids Read - Free information for you to help all children with reading. |
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Helping Your Child Learn History - with activities for children aged 4 through 11 |
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Helping Your Child Learn Math |
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Helping Your Child Learn Science - for ages 3-10 - Introduction |
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Homework Help: How to guide your child (1st grade) - Our homework help article will tell you how to assist and support your child while he or she tackles school assignments without doing them yourself. |
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How Can I Be Involved in My Child's Education? - ACCESS ERIC-Research studies consistently reveal that high student achievement and self-esteem are closely related to positive parental participation in education. Parents and schools need to work together so all children can succeed in school. |
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How Can Parent-Teacher Differences be Prevented or Resolved? - Parents and teachers share responsibility for creating a working relationship that fosters children's learning. |
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Interesting Places for Parents - Interesting Places for Parents includes Educational listings |
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Jumpstart for Parents - internet safety, financial aid,general resources, parenting organizations... |
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KidSource OnLine - KidSource OnLine--The web source for in-depth and timely education and healthcare information that will make a difference in the lives of parents and their children. |
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Let's Do Homework! - Homework can help students learn and can help parents be involved in their children's education. When parents show an interest in their child's schoolwork, they teach an important lesson—that learning is fun and worth the effort. |
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Mathematics for Parents - Discusses the importance of parental involvement in children's math homework; includes tips and questionnaire for parents. |
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National Parent Information Network (NPIN) - Provides access to research-based information about the process of parenting, and about family involvement in education. |
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The Parent Educator - The Parent Educator encourages parents to view themselves as educators who play an important role in their child?s education. Featured articles focus on how to deal with education issues at home and at school. |
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Parent Involvement in Education: A Resource for Parents, Educators, and Communities. Chapter 1: The Basics of Parent and Family Involvement - The Basics of Parent and Family Involvement |
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Parent involvement: Literature Review and Database of Promising Practices - Promising programs to increase the quantity and quality of family involvement in schools. From the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. |
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Parental Involvement - Part 1 - Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title I, Part A has been restructured to serve as a means for helping all students to achieve challenging academic standards. To accomplish this objective, the Act promotes the formation of new partnerships, particularly home-school partnerships, to help address more completely the full range of student needs that impact on their learning. |
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Parents and Children Together Online Issue #2 - ...promote family literacy by providing children and their parents with interesting materials which will help them to share the joy of reading together. |
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ParentTime - Moving Up Too Fast? - A new look at grade skipping. |
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Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers - This award winning site presented by a local teachers' union offers advice to parents, commentary on current educational issues, an interactive survey, and much more. It's updated every month except August. |
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Planetpals - An Educational and interactive resource on the Earth. Designed especially for kids. |
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Preventing and Resolving Parent-Teacher Differences - It is important for teachers and parents to remember that they know the child in different contexts, and that each may be unaware of what the child is like in the other context. It is also useful to keep in mind generally that different people often have distinct but disparate perspectives on the same issue. |
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Public School Parents Network - A network, guide and information source to assist parents of public school students. Addressing issues from academic achievement and homework help to bullying, and violence in public schools. |
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Quickstart for the Family - Texas Math TEKS information for parents |
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Raven Days - Resources for the parent whose child or teen is being bullied at school. |
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SchoolTechNews.com - On-line supplement to the SchoolTechNews.com newsletter distributed free to public schools. Also the location of the Say What? publishing project created to fight prejudice and intolerance. |
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Teacher-Parent Partnerships - Teachers and parents have a common need for joining together in partnership: the need to foster positive growth in children and in themselves. It is their challenge to create a sense of mutuality so that their efforts are meaningful to all those involved. |
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Village.com's Parent Soup's Education Central - From preschool to elementary, middle to high school and onto college: Find expert advice, articles, message boards, and chats to help your children excel at every stage. |
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What Should I Expect from a Math Program? - Here are a few ideas that might help you support a positive math environment in your child's school |
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When Report Cards Don't Make the Grade - Five tips for dealing with the less-than-perfect report card. |
