For more than 40 years, policymakers have committed to supporting the education of students with disabilities, who have grown as a share of all students in the United States. Beginning with landmark legislation in 1975, the U.S. Congress mandated that students with disabilities have access to a free and appropriate public education and provided…

Project Enlightenment, part of the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), has been providing services to children ages birth through 5 years, their parents, and teachers in childcare and preschool settings since 1969. With a local and grant funded budget of just over 2 million dollars, staff members served about 2,400 children in 2011-12. The…

There are few issues in education that get as much attention as the need for improvement of parental and community involvement in and support for local schools. School faculties want to know how to improve the way they work with families and community members to better meet the needs of their students and parents want to find how to best…

Discussing the teaching of evolution with concerned parents is a challenge to any science teacher. Using the medical education pedagogy of standardized individuals within the field of teacher education, this article addresses how preservice science teachers elected to verbally interact with standardized parents who questioned the teaching of…

Examines the dynamics of conflict and anger expressed by irate parents and offers principals a simple, effective method to resolve conflict and reduce anger in an integrative way. Well-managed conflict helps improve interpersonal relationships, promote healthy interaction, and develop creative, synergistic solutions to undesirable situations. (MLH)

Success in conferring with hostile parents is a result of careful planning, understanding human behavior, and frontline experience. This article encourages principals to develop the necessary skills to handle emotion-charged encounters with alienated, calculative, and committed parents. (MLH)

This study investigated the efficacy of an intervention strategy designed to diminish the ambivalence parents experience when deciding to place a hyperactive child on stimulant medication. Results are discussed and interpreted to suggest the importance of health care professionals in the school. (Author/MT)

Teacher in the role of listener at weekly group meetings with eight mothers helps them gain confidence as she herself gains understanding of mothers' goals for their children. (NH)

The principal of El Camino Real Elementary School describes six activities used to provide parenting education both at the school and at home. (SJL)

The transdisciplinary approach to the education of handicapped preschool children involves frequent meetings between team members and parents. The meetings address the areas of assessment, diagnosis and goal setting, planning and program implementation, and evaluation of both the program and the child. (PHR)

Presents information on a seminar called "Developing Mathematical Ideas" with the goal of piloting a new curriculum and charting a new path for parents, schools, and children in mathematics. Explores central issues in the development of constructive, thoughtful, and generative relationships between parents and school community through parents'…

Parent-educator partnerships are an important element of effective early childhood, K-12, and special education programs (Dunst, Trivette, & Snyder, 2000; Tabors, 2008). While early childhood and other classrooms in the United States are increasingly diverse, the teachers in those classrooms are unlikely to be of the same linguistic or cultural…

A mothers' discussion group was organized by school personnel to allow mothers to talk about their children who were having difficulty adjusting to Kindergarten. The mothers benefited from the experience by developing confidence in their ability to handle children as well as gaining new ways of dealing with problem situations. (CG)

Described a program for reporting pupil progress, Computer Assisted Reporting to Parents, designed to provide an effective indication of the strengths or weaknesses of individual children. (Author/RK)