Download or read book Empowering Parents Teachers written by E. E Baker-Jamieson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this handbook is to provide tools and strategies for involving parents more directly in the education of their children, whether it is special or general education. In my tenure, I have not seen much prevalent interaction with teachers in the public school system.
Download or read book Improving Schools and Empowering Parents written by Nancy Paulu and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empowering Parents and Teachers written by Sheila Wolfendale and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing parental involvement and home-school links, this text examines the increasing representation of parents in education and their contribution to school processes. Drawing on professional experience, the authors outline theories and research work.
Download or read book Empowering Parents to Improve Education written by Paul Gertler and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mexico's compensatory education program provides extra resources to primary schools that enroll disadvantaged students in highly disadvantaged rural communities. One of the most important components of the program is the school-based management intervention known as AGEs. The impact of the AGEs is assessed on intermediate school quality indicators (failure, repetition and dropout), controlling for the presence of the conditional cash transfer program. Results prove that school-based management is an effective measure for improving outcomes, based on an over time difference-in-difference."--World Bank web site.
Download or read book Empowering Parents to Improve Education written by Paul J. Gertler and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empowering Parents written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Things a Parent Should Know about Education in Indiana written by and published by Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation Parent Informat. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An information handbook for parents to help them make good choices regarding the education of their children.
Download or read book Despite the Best Intentions written by Amanda E. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As students progress from elementary school to middle school to high school, their level of academic achievement increasingly tracks along racial lines, with white and Asian students maintaining higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more advanced classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latino counterparts. Most research to date has focused on the role of poverty, family stability, and other external influences in explaining poor performance at school, especially in urban contexts. Diamond and Lewis instead situate their research in a suburban school, and look at what factors within the school itself could be causing the disparity. Most crucially, they challenge many common explanations of the 'racial achievement gap,' exploring what race actually means in this situation, and why it matters. An in-depth study with far-reaching consequences, Despite the Best Intentions revolutionizes our understanding of both the knotty problem of academic disparities and the larger question of the color line in American society.
Download or read book When Middle Class Parents Choose Urban Schools written by Linn Posey-Maddox and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to—and often end up becoming active in—urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities. Sensitively navigating the pros and cons of middle-class transformation, When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools asks whether it is possible for our urban public schools to have both financial security and equitable diversity. Drawing on in-depth research at an urban elementary school, Posey-Maddox examines parents’ efforts to support the school through their outreach, marketing, and volunteerism. She shows that when middle-class parents engage in urban school communities, they can bring a host of positive benefits, including new educational opportunities and greater diversity. But their involvement can also unintentionally marginalize less-affluent parents and diminish low-income students’ access to the improving schools. In response, Posey-Maddox argues that school reform efforts, which usually equate improvement with rising test scores and increased enrollment, need to have more equity-focused policies in place to ensure that low-income families also benefit from—and participate in—school change.
Download or read book The Leader in Me written by Stephen R. Covey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in today's world are inundated with information about who to be, what to do and how to live. But what if there was a way to teach children how to manage priorities, focus on goals and be a positive influence on the world around them? The Leader in Meis that programme. It's based on a hugely successful initiative carried out at the A.B. Combs Elementary School in North Carolina. To hear the parents of A. B Combs talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school debuted a programme that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleto a pilot group of students. The parents reported an incredible change in their children, who blossomed under the programme. By the end of the following year the average end-of-grade scores had leapt from 84 to 94. This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop. Those habits -- be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw -- are critical skills to learn at a young age and bring incredible results, proving that it's never too early to teach someone how to live well.
Download or read book Improving Schools and Empowering Parents written by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Sense written by Marc Sugarman and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains knowledge a student should posses before graduating high school - knowledge that exemplifies a well-educated, well-rounded individual."--P. 4 of cover.
Download or read book Improving America s Schools written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American's standard of living. Yet, few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate economic principles or research findings. Improving America's Schools explores how education and economic research can help produce, in the words of Harvard's Dale W. Jorgenson, "a unified framework for future education reform." This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the Clinton Administration's reform program; and Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, on the education of the disadvantaged. This volume explores these areas: The importance of schooling to labor market success. The prospects for combining school-based management with teacher incentives to gain the best of both approaches. The potential of recent innovations in student achievement testing, including new "value-added" indicators. The economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers. The volume also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement. Improving America's Schools informs the current debate over school reform with a fresh perspective, examples, and data. This readable volume will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, and education administrators as well as economists and employersâ€"it is also readily accessible to concerned parents and the larger community.
Download or read book Mindful Parenting for ADHD written by Mark Bertin and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a pediatrician and based in proven-effective mindfulness techniques, this book will help you and your child with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) keep calm, flexible, and in control. If you are a parent of a child with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you probably face many unique daily challenges. Kids with ADHD are often inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive, since ADHD affects all of self-management and self-regulation. As a result, you might become chronically frustrated or stressed out, which makes caring for ADHD that much harder. In this book, a developmental pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both you and your child with ADHD stay cool and collected while remaining flexible, resilient, and mindful. Bertin addresses the various symptoms of ADHD using non-technical language and a user-friendly format. In addition, he offers guidelines to help you assess your child's strengths and weaknesses, create plans for building skills and managing specific challenges, lower stress levels for both yourself and your child, communicate effectively, and cultivate balance and harmony at home and at school. If you are a parent, caregiver, or mental health professional, this book provides a valuable guide.
Download or read book Missing Link written by Mattie Lee Solomon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it important for parents to take an active role in supporting their childrens learning processes? How can you be more empowered in your childs education? Is your child at a potential advantage or disadvantage due to your familys income? In her latest work, author Mattie Lee Solomon, PhD, documents various parental perspectives on these and many other questions concerning involvement in the learning processes of children. Missing Link presents a collection of data gathered from interviews with parents from all walks of life to discover more about what parents think of the education of their children. Furthermore, Solomon offers valuable information about getting involved in your childs education and linking up with other parents for ideas on how to enhance your childs learning experience. Also included are some of the important questions used during these interviews. Designed to encourage reflection, these questions can help parents determine if, in their childs education, they are in fact the missing link.
Download or read book Strategies for Involving Parents in Their Children s Education written by Linda T. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents an overview of programs and practices that schools can use for involving parents in the education of their children at home and in school. The first chapter describes programs that demonstrate the ways in which parents can be involved in the education of their children of 1 to 5 years of age. A list of 10 approaches for involving parents in their children's early education is included. The second chapter discusses the topics of: (1) improving communication between home and school; (2) helping parents work with their children at home; (3) involving parents in school activities; (4) developing collaborative planning among parents, students, and teachers; and (5) empowering parents to become decisionmakers in their children's schools. The third chapter provides brief descriptions of parent workshops and activities that schools might want to offer or sponsor. Some are for parents only; others are for parents and children. The fourth chapter describes types of school-parent collaboration that can improve children's behavior, attitudes, and study habits. The concluding chapter offers guidelines for planning a successful parent involvement program. Contains 37 references. (RH)
Download or read book Empowering Parents in Our Failing Schools written by Cornel Chavez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can parents do about the failing schools in the United States? The high cost of public schools produces low achievement levels of learning. Bullying, gang violence, the presence of illegal drugs, the pedophile culture, the sexualization of young students, and indoctrination plague schools around the country. When schools fail, parents should be empowered to have decision-making authority to improve the education of their own children. Children do not belong to the state. Parental sovereignty over their own children is a basic human right. In this Civilization Science book we reveal: The difference between education/indoctrination and knowledge acquisition The nature of knowledge acquisition Needed changes to empower parents Guiding Parental Principles Ancient Knowledge Acquisition compared to today The Role of artificial intelligence (AI) in learning The dangers children face in schools The purpose of knowledge in a civilization and much more. A Civilization 2.0, 3.0, and Beyond Series book
