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Buron, Lawrence; Beecroft, Erik; Bell, Stephen; Price, Cristofer; Gemmen, Eric – 1998
As a reflection of the importance attached to successfully educating children whose native language is not English, the U.S. Department of Education's longitudinal study of Chapter 1 assistance, "Prospects," includes a component devoted to the analysis of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. Chapter 1, renamed Title 1 in 1994, is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Elementary Education
Cooke, Betty – 1992
Early Childhood Family Education is a voluntary public school program for Minnesota families with children through kindergarten age. The program's mission is to support parents' ability to provide for their children's development. To determine the program's effectiveness, participating parents were interviewed in the fall of 1990 and again at the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Development, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education
Owens, Vivian W. – 1988
Intended to influence parents to play an important role in their child's education, this guide is an educational how-to book written in simple, easy-to-understand language, showing parents how to engage in activities with their children at home that will upgrade academic performance at school. The book covers 77 concepts, each presented as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Wattenberg, Esther; And Others – 1993
This study of family preservation projects was initiated in order to have a clearer understanding of the ways in which local agencies collaborate to help families maintain a nurturing home and avoid out-of-home placement for children, and how school-age children are helped to remain in their homes and communities. An attempt to identify projects…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Sommers, Meredith; And Others – 1993
This educational packet is produced as a tribute to Guatemalan activist and Nobel Peace prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, and in honor of the Year of Indigenous People, 1993, as declared by the United Nations. The core of the packet is a simulation exercise based on an indigenous family in a Guatemalan village on the day the Peace prize was…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Liberties, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
Power, Jenny – 1992
This study documented a kindergarten teacher's efforts to actively involve parents as partners in the literacy education of their children. In addition to the teacher, subjects of the study were her 26 pupils and their parents, all residents of rural New South Wales. Data were collected through anecdotal records, field observations, interviews,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Caruso, Kathy A.; Chambliss, Catherine A. – 1994
In order to determine the applicability of Contextual Family Therapy concepts such as loyalty, trust, and reciprocity to eastern as well as western cultures, Japanese and American college students completed the Relational Ethics Scale (RES), a measure of these contextual constructs. The subjects were 173 undergraduate students; 80 from an…
Descriptors: College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 1990
This handbook for parents stresses the ways in which children benefit when the responsibility for education is shared by the school and the home. The first section of the handbook proposes that parents' attitudes and their relationship with their children may be the most influential factors in children's success in school. It further proposes that…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Family School Relationship
Bobbett, Gordon C.; Dorothy, Wayne F. – 1990
This study evaluated the relationship between musical independence and: students' gender; home environment; high school and college academic and musical experiences; and college instrumental organization, major, and instrument. The study also evaluated students' opinions regarding attrition in music education and evaluated the spectrum of musical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bands (Music), College Students, Family Environment
Anderson, Alonzo B. – 1982
This ethnographic, longitudinal study investigates the home literacy experiences of low income children to gain insight into why such children generally do not learn to read and write as well as middle class children. Participating were 24 children, approximately 2.5 to 3.5 years of age, in groups equally divided by sex. Subjects were from three…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Early Experience, Ethnic Groups
Chan, Kenyon S.; Osthimer, Beth – 1983
The school dropout problem among American Indian youths is severe and complicated by the heterogeneous nature of the population and its unique social, cultural, and political history. To investigate the educational experiences of high risk Navajo youths in the areas of language minority status, traditionalism, critical markers, distance to school,…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
Hibpshman, Terrance L. – 1989
An evaluation was made of PACE (Parent and Child Education), a family literacy program initiated in Kentucky in 1986. PACE was created because of the widespread belief that the state has a serious problem with undereducation of its adult population and the belief also that this problem is the result of persistent patterns of educational failure…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Family Environment, Family Influence
Kalmar, Magda; Boronkai, Judit – 1989
Data are presented from a long-term follow-up study investigating the interplay of various factors contributing to the developmental outcome of prematurely born children. Fifty-eight low-risk pre-term Hungarian children are compared to 100 full-term children, from birth to age 6, on socioeconomic status, family climate, and intellectual…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences
Cooper, Thomas W. – Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 1987
Noting that humans are educated more by than about the mass media, this paper argues that modern society has produced an informal (mediated) ethics curriculum which may be more powerful than the formal (institutionally educational) curriculum developed by academics and administrators. It first examines the informal curriculum, listing statistics…
Descriptors: Advertising, Attitude Change, Communication Research, Cultural Context
Ronnau, John – 1989
This resource training manual for family advocacy workers is designed to help these workers meet the needs of families who care for adolescents with emotional disabilities. It is intended for use with a companion manual which focuses on the needs of youth themselves, and stresses that effective case management must integrally involve both youths…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Advocacy, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation
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