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Parental Involvement
More Benefits Found for Parents' Involvement in Children's Education
A new study from the University of New Hampshire offers further evidence that parental involvement can play a major role in students' academic achievement. According to researcher Karen Smith Conway, "Parental effort is consistently associated with higher levels of achievement, and the magnitude of the effect of parental effort is substantial. We found that schools would need to increase per-pupil spending by more than $1,000 in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement."
Read the full article at:
http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2008/may/lw27parents.cfm
Here are 8 ways to improve parent involvement --
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"Parent & School Partnership Center" (EM90639)
This free-standing display rack contains 35 copies each of 8 motivational booklets on parenting issues tied directly to academic success, child discipline, parental stress, latchkey children, and more.
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College & Career Preparedness
Crafting a New Vision for High School -- What States Can Do to Promote More Powerful Learning
"As we near the end of the first decade of the 21st century, state leaders may be surprised to learn that most high school graduates are unprepared for the college study or career training they need to get a good job. Frankly, the situation is actually worse than that." So begins the comprehensive report "Crafting a New Vision for High School: How States Can Join Academic and Technical Studies to Promote More Powerful Learning," recently published by the Southern Regional Education Board. The study urges states to consider infusing college-preparatory education with career/techical education (CTE) as a way to help equip more students with the academic, problem-solving, communication, and other skills necessary for success in college and career searches.
Read the full article at:
http://www.sreb.org/publications/2008/08V07_Crafting_new_vision.pdf
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Girls and Delinquency
New Bulletin Examines Girls' Delinquency Rates, Causes
Sugar and spice and everything nice? Get real. By 2004, girls made up 30 percent of all juvenile arrests, and a new study group convened by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention seeks to figure out why, and what to do about it. The Girls Study Group has issued a series of bulletins, and its latest, "Understanding and Responding to Girls' Delinquency," addresses girls' and boys' patterns of offending, risk and protective factors linked with delinquency, and causes and correlates of delinquency among girls.
Read the full article at:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/218905.pdf
Help parents prevent bullying among girls
"Girls And Bullying -- What Parents Should Know About Relational Aggression" (EM23071)A
This comprehensive booklet clearly explains the specific -- and often subtle -- ways in which girls bully other girls, and tells parents what they can do if they suspect their daughter is a victim or a perpetrator of bullying.
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Race and Relationships
Study Examines Racial Crowds vs. Interest-Based Crowds in High School
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dartmouth College, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill examines high school social groups, and whether ethnic minority teens tend to group together -- and what the causes and effects of doing so might be. The researchers found that most minority teens associated with groups based on interests or abilities (such as jocks, brains, or popular kids) rather than ethnically oriented crowds (such as African American or Asian American students). But the question of whether or not it was beneficial to be part of an ethnically oriented group was more complicated.
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/sfri-mem050808.php
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Early Childhood Education
Parent Feedback Underused but Useful in Early Childhood Programs
Evaluations of early childhood care and education programs have often left parents out of the process, largely because of the problem of positive response bias -- parents' tendency to mostly rate their children's care programs as positive. But a new study examines the benefits of parental feedback, and the influence of parents' involvement in the programs. The study also looks at the positive response bias issue in finer detail to see how programs can best use parental feedback.
Read the full article at:
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v10n1/jinnah.html
Help educators increase parent involvement --
and student achievement
"Getting Parents Involved; A Teacher And Staff Handbook" (EM95658)K
This handbook explains the many easy ways in which school staff members can extend a welcome to parents, as well as ways to overcome barriers to meaningful parent involvement.
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