The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) provides parents with information and resources to understand parent involvement and parent rights and options under the No Child Left Behind legislation. KPIRC also provides parents with information and resources to successfully support their children’s learning from birth through high school.
Why Should I Worry About Schools My Children Won't Attend?
In this article, "Why Should I Worry About Schools My Children Won't Attend," the author Arthur Levine argues that educational inequity is the greatest challenge facing education today and a powerful threat to our country. Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with - on October 17, 2008 # |
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College Planning with ACT
This website is ACT on College Planning and what information you need to have when your child is a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. From the home page, click on For Parents, then Plan for College. Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with testing on October 17, 2008 # |
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The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is an independent, nonpartisan group of volunteers dedicated to improving education in Kentucky. We help to solve problems through public statements, meetings, publications, and recommendations made by task forces of our own volunteer members. We inform the public through publications including guidebooks on the primary school, a quarterly newsletter, a monthly newspaper column, and a Web site, www.prichardcommittee.org. We also answer questions on a toll-free telephone line. |
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USDE Articles about Parents
The following is a list of articles and publications family and father involvement in children's education from Archived Information from the US Department of Education. Benefits of Family Involvement in Education http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/calltocommit/chap1.html Family Involvement in Children's Education: Successful Local Approaches http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FamInvolve/index.html Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Schools http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/fathers/index.html Fathers Matter! Involving Fathers in Children's Learning http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/fathers/index.html Filed under Parents and tagged with USDE on October 17, 2008 # |
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The Family Room
This site has games designed for you and your kids to play together, information about computers, the internet, online safety and lots more! Filed under Parents and tagged with family on October 17, 2008 # |
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Helping Your Child
The Helping Your Child publication series aims to provide parents with the tools and information necessary to help their children succeed in school and life. These booklets feature practical lessons and activities to help their school aged and preschool children master reading, understand the value of homework and develop the skills and values necessary to achieve and grow. This site contains the archived series from the US Department of Education from previous administrations. Filed under Parents and tagged with tips on October 17, 2008 # |
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National Coalition of Title I for Parents
The National Coalition of Title I / Chapter 1 Parents helps economically disadvantaged parents to develop the necessary skills and abilities needed to make sound decisions that result in improving the quality of their children's education. |
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National Coalition for Parent Involvement
National Coalition for Parent Invovlement to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people. |
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Tufts University Child & Family Web Guide
Online searches for many parent topics yield information that is inconsistent with child development research. The WebGuide selects sites that have the highest quality child development research and that are parent friendly. Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with tufts on October 17, 2008 # |
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