Many parents are choosing to send their children to afterschool private learning centers to narrow gap between academic potential and actual progress. Such parents usually feel more in control of their children's educational experiences and desire individualized reading lists, enrichment programs, and help with managing discipline and learning…

Parents' efforts to help their children learn are more important to academic success than the family's economic well-being. This article describes recent research affirming the importance of parent-school involvement and outlines strategies for removing barriers, weighing model programs, and constructing a program that stresses open communications…

Presents 10 annotations of reports, conference papers, and research summaries published in 1988 and 1989 concerning the many roles parents play in the acquisition and development of language and literacy of their children. (RS)

Lists basic study techniques for parents to use with their children so that the time their children spend on homework may be well used. Strategies include doing the hardest part first, taking breaks, studying with others, and establishing a review system. (SM)

The differential effects of parent-daughter identification, parent mathematics self-concept, and parent expectations on adolescent mathematics self-concept were examined with 165 high ability adolescent girls and their parents. Parent mathematics self-concept was related to parent expectations which were in turn linked to daughter mathematics…

Presents a guide for parents of children with mild disabilities to help those children plan and qualify for competitive employment. Presents suggestions in an elementary-middle-high school sequence to help parents decide what they can do with and for their children as they go through school and through the normal career development stages. (SR)

This longitudinal study examined processes involved in transactional models of socialization, focusing on maternal intrusive support for children's academic achievement. Results suggested that low achievement elicited intrusive support through the mechanisms of increased maternal worry and increased child uncertainty. Day-to-day analyses suggested…

Expands the reflective process into the author's unique learning community to intimately involve parents in their child's learning and academic development. Explores new ways to gather information about her students by inviting parents to become members of her reflective learning community. Describes the benefits and challenges of having parents…

In a recent survey, parents and middle school students reported that they are challenged by the demands of homework. Responses to the survey, titled "The Great Homework Divide," indicate that students and their parents are struggling to adjust to the middle school workload, which can be both heavier and more varied than previously experienced by…

This article is a theoretical and empirical study of the ways in which different South Asian groups, Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani, achieve entry into the selective education system, taking into consideration the factors of social class, ethnicity and culture. In-depth interviews with 42 South Asian school pupils from three single-sex…

This document consists of the 12 issues of "Parent News" (an electronic Internet magazine for parents, prepared for the National Parent Information Network) published during 1996. Each monthly issue contains short feature articles summarizing research, announcing major events and conferences, and addressing issues of interest to parents. Topics of…

This document consists of the 12 issues of "Parent News" (an electronic Internet magazine for parents, prepared for the National Parent Information Network) published during 1998. Each monthly issue contains feature articles describing the activities of the National Parent Information Network, summarizing research useful to parents,…

Article illustrated some of the problems a teacher has in recording the progress of students for parental analysis. (RK)

Author is a teacher whose children, aged three, six and seven, are taught mainly by their mother at home. (Editor/RK)

Author recounted his feelings as he became educated and felt the growing distance between himself, a budding academic, and his nonacademic parents. (RK)