Head Start and parent involvement
An overview of Head Start’s policies and principles for parent involvement
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Families as primary partners in their child's development & school readiness
A guide to help parents become more involved with their children's preschool education, focusing on parents as educators and leaders and on collaboration between parents, teachers, and schools
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Parent involvement in early care and education programs: A review of the literature
A review of key issues and research related to parental involvement in child care and early education programs, with a focus on programs in Kentucky
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Parenting education in family literacy programs
A discussion of the role and effectiveness of parenting education in family literacy interventions.
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Head Start parent involvement: Vision, opportunity, and strategies
A proposal of methods to increase parents' involvement during children's preparation for, participation in, and transition out of Head Start programs
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The impact of parental involvement on the quality of day care centres
An analysis of the interactions between children, parents and professional staff in four multicultural parent-run day-care centers for disadvantaged families in France, and how such interactions could facilitate cognitive development
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Parent involvement in early childhood home visiting
Overviews of elements of parental involvement and factors influencing parental involvement in early childhood home visiting programs
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Promoting positive parenting through parenting education
A guide for the planning and implementation of the parent education program component of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) State Early Childhood Comprehensive Services (SECCS) Initiative, including definitions, strategies, examples, and recommendations
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Prepared statement of Sharon F. Rhodes
A presentation to the United States Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions by Sharon F. Rhodes, Director of Program Development and Evaluation at the Parents as Teachers National Center, discussing parental involvement in children’s learning from the earliest years, and the Parents as Teachers program
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Evaluating parent involvement and family support in early intervention and preschool programs
A description of potential accountability areas for use in assessing the provision of supportive services to families participating in early intervention and preschool programs for children with special needs
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Strengthening homeless parents with young children through meaningful parent education and support
Suggestions for early childhood educators using their interactions with homeless parents to teach parenting skills
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Through their lens: An inquiry into non-parental education and care of infants and toddlers
An examination of the characteristics of child care and early education provision for infants and toddlers in New Zealand, including service use, quality, and impacts
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Early education: From science to pratice [practice]: Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First session, On examining early education issues, focusing on quality educational programs, parent involvement in early childhood development, and separation of education for children with special needs, February 12, 2002
A hearing on issues affecting early childhood care and education, focusing on parents' involvement and influence, school readiness, the need for professional development for early childhood educators, and early childhood special education.
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Early child development: A framework for collaboration
A call for collaboration across sectors within countries to build national early childhood development systems with recommendations that countries shift the current education paradigm from teacher centered to play based and child centered, involve parents in children's development, expand services to include children under age 3, include parent education, assure quality programming through training, and institute a monitoring system to measure population-level outcomes of children's development
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Thoughts on the future of research on mathematics and science learning and education
A discussion of the future of mathematics and science education, including curriculum development, teaching strategies to help at risk children, program evaluations, and parents' involvement
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Toward a socioecological perspective of relations between parents and child care programs
An examination of possible cultural and organizational interferences between parental involvement in child care
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Child care and parenting education within drug treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women
A discussion of the importance of, and issues involved in, incorporating child care and parent education into drug abuse treatment programs for mothers and pregnant women
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The role of Korean parents in the literacy development of their children
A discussion of the role of Korean parents' involvement in their children's early language acquisition and its contribution to the high literacy rates in Korea.
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Making schools work for low-income families in the 21st century
An examination of the United States educational system's ability to meet three of the National Education Goals by 2000, school readiness, student achievement and citizenship, and parent involvement, for children from low-income families
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The effects of conjoint behavioral consultation in early childhood settings
An investigation of the effects of Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC), a collaborative service delivery model through which parents and educators jointly address care and education issues, on a sample of 48 children aged 6 and younger
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Regulating dimensions of quality in early care and education: A review of the research [Seminar edition]
A review of research on regulatable variables of child care program quality, and effects of regulatory activities, in the areas of staff qualifications, staff child ratios, group size, facilities, curricula, parental involvement, safety, health and nutrition
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Welcoming families: A parent literacy project in a linguistically rich, high-poverty school
An account of the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of a project designed to encourage shared book reading between a parent and a child from a project initiated by an elementary school described as a high in poverty and high in linguistic diversity
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A three-tier model of parent education in early childhood: Applying a problem-solving model
A proposal of a model intervention for the education of parents of children with disabilities who also suffer from behavior problems
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The role of child care providers in child abuse prevention
A description of knowledge, skills, and strategies for child care
providers promoted by the Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect (PCAN) program, including the creation of effective partnerships with parents that enhance program quality, the enhancement of protective factors for families, and the reduction of the risk of child maltreatment
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Prepared statement of Dorothy S. Strickland
A presentation to the United States Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions by Dorothy S. Strickland, a teacher and researcher discussing parental involvement and child development and research findings concerning literacy development in children
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