The paper describes ways in which parents can help their learning disabled children at home. Suggestions touch upon establishing a set time for evening homework, a consistent place for study, involving fathers in homework, using graph paper to ease arithmetic assignments, considering options for reading assignments, using a duplicate set of books…

Provides practical ideas for developing productive and agreeable parent/teacher relationships. (RH)

Parents, professors, and teachers collaborated on a Teacher Corps project that focused on school change. A participant observer recounts how group members' views, perceptions, and attitudes were modified over time. (Author/MLF)

Suggests that since experts differ in their interpretation of reading, it is essential to establish a common concept of reading that involves the notions of independence, understanding, utilization, appreciation, and enjoyment in order to have fruitful discussions of reading progress between parents and teachers. (AEA)

The article examines the conceptual bases for parent advocacy, discusses some potential abuses of parent advocacy, reviews the parental role in advocacy, and offers suggestions for parent advocates. (Author/DLS)

Discusses ways to promote an open, dynamic relationship between teachers and parents of exceptional children. (JMB)

Argues that it is fundamental for education that the interaction of teachers with parents and children be a reciprocal learning experience for all parties. If reciprocal negotiation and convention setting are missing from the partnership dialogue, it is the teacher's responsibility to implement methods whereby all partners grow as the skills of…

This paper discusses how educators can advance integration of students with disabilities by involving parents in the educational process. The paper suggests courses of action that can be taken to promote home-school collaboration, describing the importance of continuity of values between home and school, models of parent involvement, the…

Outlines the goals of the new editor of this monthly newsletter for parents. Suggests practices that teachers can use to enlist the cooperation of parents, including corresponding and meeting with parents before the school year, and communicating with parents several times during the school year to learn about their child and to open a dialog…

Discusses the importance of sharing stories about child care. Stresses the use of stories as an effective tool for advocacy and for creating strong relationships with parents and building within society strong, healthy images of child-care work. (SM)

Separate columns in this newsletter issue emphasize (1) the need for parents and teachers to encourage children to write notes to one another to improve their literacy; (2) the use of mathematics in an integrated curriculum; and (3) the importance of reading to children. (MDM)

Interviews educational psychologist Dr. Sylvia Rimm about underachievers and underachievement syndrome. Discusses how parents and teachers can best help underachievers; societal messages about underachieving; girls and underachieving; the role of reading in underachievement; and other such topics. (SR)

A mother of a highly gifted son gives her observations of life with a gifted child, the educational needs of the gifted, and suggestions to teachers of the gifted. Stressed throughout is the fact that gifted children are first and foremost children with all the needs and characteristics of children. Stereotypes of the gifted child are exposed…

This paper indicates the benefits obtained when child care center staff use a daily log to record the activities of infants in care. Designed to provide parents with information about their child's activities, the log consists of entries such as time of feedings, food consumed, diaper changes, stimulation, play, sleep periods, crying periods, and…

This paper suggests three major directions for improving the family-school relationship, and thus developing productive environments for learning. First, a meaning of curriculum is defined to determine where parents and teachers should direct their attention in order to improve the curriculum in families and schools. Second, four existing…