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.
Organization: Advice for Parents
teachervision.com TeacherVision is created by teachers for teachers. Millions of teachers rely on TeacherVision's materials to enhance their curriculum, enrich their students, and make their professional lives a bit easier. These pages are things that parents can do with children to enhance their learning in reading, math, science, and social studies from Kindergarten through the 6th grade. Filed under Parents and tagged with homework on October 17, 2008 # |
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Partnership for Learning
Partnership for Learning is a nationally award-winning non-profit that helps schools and communities work together to boost learning from birth through the transition to college. |
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Homework Hotline
A multitude of homework help in basic subjects like math, science, history and social studies, language (English and Spanish), assignments, lesson plans, resources available for students of all grade levels to assist them on education needs to be able to complete necessary work and to integrate classroom work with homework to assure passing grades and to promote high achievement and geared for graduation. Filed under Parents and tagged with homework on October 17, 2008 # |
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Back to School Checklist: Questions and Tips for Parents, Schools and Communities
In August, 2004 the U.S.D.E. produced a "Back to School Checklist: Questions and Tips for Parents, Schools and Communities". It offers questions that parents might ask educators about their schools’ academic curriculum and levels of achievement; how their school helps parents and students; how parents can know if teachers are highly qualified and how the school informs parents of discipline policies and infractions. |
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PBS Kids
Here you'll find information about your child's development from birth through the early school years. And you'll find lots of fun educational activities for your children to help get them ready for school. Filed under Parents and tagged with PBS on October 17, 2008 # |
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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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