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Download full textPowell, Douglas R.; D'Angelo, Diane – 2000
This guide provides a framework and suggestions for strengthening the quality and impact of parenting education services in Even Start. It is aimed at Even Start state coordinators and local program administrators responsible for supporting and monitoring the quality of parenting education services in Even Start, and at local program staff…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Family Literacy, Parent Child Relationship
Karther, Diane – 1996
The family's influence on children's learning accounts for 80 percent of variance in students' academic performance. The present study, framed by the concept of human development within ecological contexts as elaborated by Bronfenbrenner (1979), investigated literacy practices and views of parents with limited literacy skills who participated in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family Environment, Family Influence, Family Literacy
Neuman, Susan B.; And Others – 1993
A project explored the possibility of creating a collaborative approach to parent involvement with their children's education. Participants in the family literacy program were 19 African-American adolescent mothers from low-income backgrounds whose children attended an early intervention program. Parents' beliefs about learning and literacy were…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Attitudes, Family Literacy, Parent Attitudes
Thompson, Linda W. – 1988
A summary of the research on adult literacy indicated factors which make an effective program: recruitment of students centered on personal contacts, individual intake conferences, and sensitive and compassionate teachers with high morale about the program. A summary of the research in preschool literacy programs stressed that factors associated…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Family Involvement, Family Literacy, Intergenerational Programs
Mansbach, Sara Currie – 1993
The program goal of family literacy is to use early intervention to break the cycle of illiteracy perpetuated by parents' undereducation. This paper describes family literacy as a dropout prevention strategy that should be most heavily concentrated on the prenatal through 8-year-old child; a child ready for school is less likely to become a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh, PA. – 1994
A project proposed to demonstrate an effective delivery system for providing family literacy services to homeless parents of young children by taking the "Read Me a Story" program directly into bridge housing sites where the families resided. The approach offered was the direct parent/indirect child model. The curriculum came from…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
